what is the name of the oldest plant on earth
List of oldest trees
Name Age ( years ) Species Location Country Notes Pando 80,000 -- 1,000,000 Quaking aspen Populus tremuloides Fishlake National Forest , Utah United States Covers 107 acres ( 0.43 km ) and has around 47,000 stems ( average age 130 years ) , which continually die and are renewed by its roots . Is also the heaviest known organism , weighing 6,000 tonnes . Jurupa Oak 13,000 Palmer oak Quercus palmeri Jurupa Mountains , California United States Quercus palmeri Engelm . = Quercus dunnii Kellogg . Old Tjikko 9,550 Norway spruce Picea abies Fulufjället National Park , Dalarna Sweden The tree 's stems live no more than 600 years , but its root system 's age was established using carbon dating and genetic matching . Elsewhere in the Fulu mountains , 20 spruces have been found older than 8,000 years . Old Rasmus 9,500 Norway spruce Picea abies Sonfjället , Härjedalen Sweden ? 3,000 -- 10,000 Huon Pine Lagarostrobos franklinii Mount Read , Tasmania Australia Several genetically identical males that have reproduced vegetatively . Although single trees in this stand may be around 3 to 4 thousand years old , the stand itself as a single organism has existed for 10,000 years .
Name Age ( years ) Species Location Country Notes Pando 80,000 -- 1,000,000 Quaking aspen Populus tremuloides Fishlake National Forest , Utah United States Covers 107 acres ( 0.43 km ) and has around 47,000 stems ( average age 130 years ) , which continually die and are renewed by its roots . Is also the heaviest known organism , weighing 6,000 tonnes . Jurupa Oak 13,000 Palmer oak Quercus palmeri Jurupa Mountains , California United States Quercus palmeri Engelm . = Quercus dunnii Kellogg . Old Tjikko 9,550 Norway spruce Picea abies Fulufjället National Park , Dalarna Sweden The tree 's stems live no more than 600 years , but its root system 's age was established using carbon dating and genetic matching . Elsewhere in the Fulu mountains , 20 spruces have been found older than 8,000 years . Old Rasmus 9,500 Norway spruce Picea abies Sonfjället , Härjedalen Sweden ? 3,000 -- 10,000 Huon Pine Lagarostrobos franklinii Mount Read , Tasmania Australia Several genetically identical males that have reproduced vegetatively . Although single trees in this stand may be around 3 to 4 thousand years old , the stand itself as a single organism has existed for 10,000 years .