Nevada actually has two state trees: the Single-leaf Pinyon and the Bristlecone Pine.
The bristlecone pine tree lives up to 5,000 years!
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California. The Great Basin Bristlecone Pine is the oldest living tree in America. Located in California, it is believed to be approximately 4,800 years old. Its nickname is "Methuselah."
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The Bristlecone Pine is the longest recorded.
It might just be a bristlecone pine. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristlecone_pine
in 1953
There is no "brestlecone" pine, but bristlecone pines are in the the southern Rockies and Great Basin of the western US.
The Bristlecone pine claims the record but there is some dispute.
The oldest living tree to be dated by counting rings is the bristlecone pine.
== == The Pinon Pine (Pinaceae Pinus monophylla) was the first tree adopted as a symbol by Nevada in 1959. The Bristlecone Pine (Pinus aristata) shares the state tree designation being adopted in 1987. cameron peredo loves men