Name | Age (years) | Species | Location | Country | Notes |
Alerce Milenario or Gran Abuelo |
5,484 |
Patagonian cypress Fitzroya cupressoides } |
Cordillera Pelada, Los Ríos |
Chile |
A new 2022 estimation of 5,484 years expands on a previous minimum age based on incomplete tree rings of 3,654.[13][14] |
?[nb 2] | 5,076 | Great Basin bristlecone pine Pinus longaeva | White Mountains (California) | United States | Tree cored by Edmund Schulman, age determined by Tom Harlan. However, core is missing and date is unconfirmed.[11][27] |
Llangernyw Yew | 4,000–5,000 | Common yew Taxus baccata | Llangernyw, Conwy | United Kingdom | Girth of 10.75 m. Situated in the churchyard of St Dygain's Church in Llangernyw village, Wales. One of the 50 Great British Trees. |
Sarv-e Abarkuh | 4,500 | Mediterranean cypress Cupressus sempervirens | Abarkuh, Yazd | Iran | Also called "Zoroastrian Sarv".[28][29] |
Gümeli Porsuğu | 4,115 | Yew Taxus baccata | Zonguldak | Turkey | Alive, found in 2016.[30][31] |
The Ancient Yew | 4,000 | Yew Taxus baccata | Tisbury, Wiltshire | United Kingdom | 37 feet in circumference. Situated in the churchyard of St John's, Tisbury. Carbon dated by David Bellamy.[32] |
The Senator | 3,500 | Pond cypress Taxodium ascendens | Longwood, Florida | United States | Died in January 2012 from human-caused fire.[33][34] |
Oliveira do Mouchão (KNJ1/601) |
3,350 |
European olive tree
Olea europea L. var. europaea |
Mouriscas, Abrantes |
Portugal |
Alive.[35][36] |
S'Ozzastru | 3,000–4,000 | Olive Olea europaea | Luras, Sardinia | Italy | [37] |
The President | 3,200 | Giant sequoia Sequoiadendron giganteum | Sierra Nevada, California | United States | Alive. |
Fortingall Yew | 3,000 | Common yew Taxus baccata | Fortingall, Perthshire | United Kingdom | Alive. Possibly the oldest tree in Britain.[38][39][clarification needed] |
Alishan Sacred Tree | 3,000 | Formosan cypress Chamaecyparis formosensis | Alishan National Scenic Area, Chiayi | Taiwan | Collapsed on July 1, 1997, following heavy rainstorms.[40] |
Patriarca da Floresta [pt] | 3,020 | Jequitibá-rosa
Cariniana legalis |
Santa Rita do Passa Quatro, São Paulo | Brazil | Alive. Probably the oldest non-conifer in Brazil. Its name translates as "Patriarch of the Forest". Located at the Vassununga State Park.[41] |
Great Camphor of Takeo | 3,000+ | Cinnamomum camphora "Camphor Tree" | Takeo, Saga | Japan | A large Camphor tree reputed to be over 3,000 years old.[42] Worshipped at a Shinto shrine dedicated to the tree, dating back to the 700s C.E.[43] Alive. |
Raintree | 3,000+ | Great Basin bristlecone pine | Spring Mountains, Nevada | United States | Great Basin Bristlecone Pine located near Kyle Canyon in the Spring Mountain range in Southern Nevada, USA. Estimated 3000 years old but never cored. |
Oliveira de Santa Iria de Azóia [Wikidata] | 2,850 | Olive Olea europaea | Santa Iria de Azoia, Loures | Portugal | Magnificent Olive tree, probably the last one from a large olive grove. Studied by UTAD University and now classified "Public interest tree" by the Portuguese National Forest Authority; Tree ID[44] |
Mother of the Forest | 2,520 | Giant sequoia Sequoiadendron giganteum | Sierra Nevada, Calaveras Big Trees State Park, California | United States | Dead. |
Sarv Zibad | 2,500 | Mediterranean cypress Cupressus sempervirens | Sarv Zibad, Khorasan | Iran | Also called "holly Sarv".[28][29] |
General Sherman |
2,300–2,700 |
Giant sequoia Sequoiadendron giganteum |
Giant Forest, Sequoia National Park, California |
United States |
Alive with a height of 83.8 meters (275 ft), a diameter of 11 m (36 ft) at its base, and an estimated bole volume of 1,487 m3 (52,513 cu ft), it is the largest known living single-stem tree, and among the tallest, widest, and longest-lived of all trees on Earth.[45][46] |
Kayano Ōsugi | 2,300 | Japanese cedar Cryptomeria japonica | Yamanaka Onsen, Ishikawa | Japan | Girth of 9.6 m. One of the four trees believed to be sacred in the precincts in a Shinto shrine. Its name translates as "Great Sugi of Kayano". |
Oliveira de Santa Luzia | 2,210 | Olive Olea europaea | Santa Luzia, Tavira, Algarve | Portugal | Alive.[47] |
Jōmon Sugi | 2,170–7,200 | Japanese cedar Cryptomeria japonica | Yakushima | Japan | Girth of 16.4 m. Exact dating is made difficult by the rotten core of the trunk. Its name is a reference to the Jōmon period of Japanese prehistory.[48][49][50] |
Ballyconnell Yew | 2,000–5,000 | Yew Taxus baccata | Ballyconnell, Annagh | Ireland | Oldest tree in Ireland.[citation needed] |
Elia Vouvon | 2,000–5,000 | Olive Olea europaea | Kolymvari, Crete | Greece | Its name translates as "Olive Tree of Vouves".[51] |
Castagnu dê Centu Cavaddi | 2,000–4,000 | Sweet chestnut Castanea sativa | Sicily | Italy | Its name translates as the "Hundred Horse Chestnut". |
Ulleungdo Hyangnamu | 2,000–3,000 | Chinese juniper Juniperus chinensis | Ulleung-gun, Gyeongbuk | South Korea | Girth of 4.5 m. One of the main branches was broken in 1985 by typhoon "Brenda". |
Stara Maslina | 2,249 (2,016-2482)[52] | Olive Olea europaea | Stari Bar, Bar | Montenegro | |
Tnjri | 2,040+ | Oriental plane Platanus orientalis | Martuni Region | Azerbaijan | Oldest tree in a part of Azerbaijan. Its trunk is hollow. Also known as "Sose's Tree". |
Koca Katran | 2,030 | Lebanon cedar Cedrus libani | Antalya | Turkey | Alive.[53] |
? | 2,010 | Olive Olea europaea | Exo Hora, Zakynthos | Greece | [54] |
? | 2,010 | Yew Taxus | Sochi, Krasnodar Krai | Russia | A grove known to possess several 2,000-year-old specimens.[55] |
Houkisugi at Nakagawa | 2,000 | Japanese cedar Cryptomeria japonica | Nakagawa Settlement, Yamakita, Kanagawa | Japan | |
Lady Liberty | 2,000+ | Bald cypress Taxodium distichum | Longwood, Florida | United States | Sometimes called the "Companion Tree" to 'Senator". |
Tejo Milenario | 2,000+ | Yew Taxus baccata | Cazorla, Jaén | Spain | Oldest tree in Spain.[56] |
The Pechanga Great Oak Tree | 1,000[57]-2,000 | Coast live oak Quercus agrifolia | Temecula, California | United States | Oldest oak tree in the United States, possibly in the world. |
Methuselah | 1,800 | Coast redwood Sequoia sempervirens | Woodside, California | United States | [58] |
Araucaria Madre | 1,810 | Araucaria araucana | Araucanía | Chile | Located in Parque Nacional Conguillío. 1,800 rings account for at least 1,800 years.[59] |
Granit oak | 1,679 | Pedunculate oak Quercus robur | Granit | Bulgaria | |
Kongeegen | 1,500–2,000 | Pedunculate oak Quercus robur | Jægerspris Nordskov, Zealand | Denmark | [60] |
Stelmužė Oak | 1,500–2,000 | Pedunculate oak Quercus robur | Stelmužė, Zarasai | Lithuania | Oldest tree in the Baltic states. Supposedly oldest oak in Europe. |
Vilémovice Yew | 1,500–2,000 | Common yew Taxus baccata | Vilémovice | Czech Republic | 345 cm (136 in) in circumference.[61] |
Aubépines | 1,500 | Common hawthorn Crataegus monogyna | Saint-Mars-sur-la-Futaie, Mayenne | France | Oldest tree in France.[62] |
Jardine Juniper | 1,500 | Rocky Mountain juniper Juniperus scopulorum | Logan Canyon, Utah | United States | [63] |
Árbol del Tule | 1,433–1,600 | Montezuma cypress Taxodium mucronatum | Santa María del Tule, Oaxaca | Mexico | Stoutest tree trunk in the world. Its name translates as the "Tule Tree". |
Baikushev's pine | 1,300 | Heldreich's pine Pinus heldreichii | Pirin Mountains | Bulgaria | Oldest known coniferous tree in Bulgaria. It is named after its discoverer, forest ranger Kostadin Baikushev. |
Te Matua Ngahere | 1,200–4,000 | Kauri Agathis australis | Waipoua Forest, Northland | New Zealand | Oldest tree in New Zealand. Its name translates as "Father of the Forest". |
Cis Henrykowski | 1270 | Common Yew Taxus Baccata | Henryków Lubański, Lower Silesia, | Poland |
Oldest tree in Poland. The age of the tree was estimated based on the trunk circumference and growth rate assessed by taking a core from an undamaged part of the trunk. If the trunk is the result of the fusion of two or three trunks, its age may be younger.[64] |
Algarrobo Abuelo | 1,200+ | Algarrobo Prosopis chilensis | Villa de Merlo, San Luis Province | Argentina | Possibly oldest algarrobo in Argentina.[citation needed] |
"The Sisters" or "Sisters Olive Trees of Noah" |
1,162 ±131[65] |
Olive Olea europaea |
Bchaaleh, North Governorate |
Lebanon |
Folk legend also ascribes The Sisters as the source of the olive branch returned to Noah's Ark at the waning of the Biblical Flood.[66] |
Olive Tree of Mouchão |
3350 |
Olive
Olea europaea |
Mouriscas, Abrantes |
Portugal |
In 2016, José Luís Lousada, a researcher at the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, estimated the tree's age at approximately 3350 years using dendrometry. According to this assessment with an estimate age precision of 2%, it is considered the oldest tree in Portugal.[67] |