<P> Some endoliths have extremely long lives . In August 2013, researchers reported evidence of endoliths in the ocean floor with a generation time of 10 millennia . These are slowly metabolizing, not in a dormant state . </P> <Ul> <Li> A Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) is measured by ring count to be 5067 years old . This is the oldest known tree in North America, and the oldest known living individual nonclonal tree in the world . </Li> <Li> Llangernyw Yew may be the oldest individual tree in Europe and second - or third - oldest individual tree in the world . Believed to be aged between 4,000 years and 5,000 years old, this ancient yew (Taxus baccata) is in the churchyard of the village of Llangernyw in North Wales . </Li> <Li> Fortingall Yew, an ancient yew (Taxus baccata) in the churchyard of the village of Fortingall in Perthshire, Scotland, is one of the oldest known individual trees in Europe . Various estimates have put its age between 2,000 and 5,000 years, although now believed to be at the lower end of this range . </Li> <Li> Fitzroya cupressoides is the species with the second - oldest verified age, a specimen in Chile being measured by ring count as 3,622 years old . </Li> <Li> The President, located in Sequoia National Park, California, is the oldest known living giant sequoia at approximately 3,200 years of age . </Li> <Li> A sacred fig (Ficus religiosa), the Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka, is 2,300 years old (planted in 288 BC). It is the oldest known living to date human - planted tree in the world . </Li> <Li> A specimen of Lagarostrobos franklinii in Tasmania is thought to be about 2,000 years old . </Li> <Li> Numerous olive trees are purported to be 2,000 years old or older . An olive tree in Ano Vouves, Crete, claiming such longevity, has been confirmed on the basis of tree ring analysis . </Li> <Li> Jōmon Sugi, the cryptomeria naturally grown in Yakushima Island, Kagoshima, Japan, is 2,170 to 7,200 years old . </Li> <Li> Great sugi of Kayano, the cryptomeria deemed planted by humans in Kaga, Ishikawa, Japan, had an estimated age of 2,300 years in 1928 . </Li> <Li> Welwitschia is a monotypic genus of gymnosperm plant, composed solely of the distinct Welwitschia mirabilis . The plant is considered a living fossil . Radiocarbon dating has confirmed many individuals have lived longer than 1,000 years, and some are suspected to be older than 2,000 years . </Li> <Li> Yareta is a tiny flowering plant in the family Apiaceae native to South America, occurring in the Puna grasslands of the Andes in Peru, Bolivia, the north of Chile, and the west of Argentina between 3,200 and 4,500 m altitude . Some yaretas could be up to 3,000 years old . </Li> </Ul> <Li> A Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) is measured by ring count to be 5067 years old . This is the oldest known tree in North America, and the oldest known living individual nonclonal tree in the world . </Li> <Li> Llangernyw Yew may be the oldest individual tree in Europe and second - or third - oldest individual tree in the world . Believed to be aged between 4,000 years and 5,000 years old, this ancient yew (Taxus baccata) is in the churchyard of the village of Llangernyw in North Wales . </Li>

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