The tallest bristlecone pine is but 60 feet tall ... bristlecones can generate cones with viable seeds. And however truncated that tree is, it is still the very same tree that was a seedling ...

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, bristlecone pines are the oldest livings organisms on the planet. These are the oldest living to animals, according to the International Fund for ...

Now the oldest known tree is another bristlecone pine in the White Mountains of California ... Bristlecone pines grow in Nevada, California, Utah, Colorado and Arizona. In the Silver State ...