Published on
06/08/2026 – 10:20 GMT+2
Trees age very slowly. The reason is that they constantly renew their tissues: needles or leaves, bark, twigs, trunk and roots are continuously regenerated while older parts gradually die off.
A remarkable fact: while trunk and crown are exposed to wind, weather, animals and loggers, a tree’s vast underground root system can continue to live on, hidden from view, for much longer.
Germany’s probably oldest tree stands in complete seclusion on a grazed alpine meadow between Steibis and Balderschwang in the Upper Allgäu, at an altitude of 1,100 metres.
The German Dendrological Society, an association of experts…
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