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Wed 12 Dec 2009Scientists in California find plant that could be 13,000 years old
Scientists have discovered what they believe may be the oldest plant in the world. The scrub oak found in the arid hills of southern California may first have sprouted during the last ice age.
Methuselah had nothing on this bushy oak, more like a shrub than a tree. Noah’s grandfather was reputed to have lived for 969 years but this plant is estimated at more than 13,000 years.
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