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View full size image. Until 2013, the oldest individual tree in the world was Methuselah, a 4,845-year-old Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) in the White Mountains of California.nd on the other side of the world, in an Andes Mountains grove in Chile, we have a 3,642-year-old Patagonian cypress (Fitzroya cupressoides). The ancient specimen, which is sometimes called the Alerce (alerce is a common Spanish name for F. cupressoides), is the third-oldest tree to have its exact age calculated.
Scientists' best guesses had the trees in the 1,200- to 1,500-year-old range. Bu lo and behold, a new study by a Humboldt State University tree-ring specialist, Allyson Carroll, has found that possibly the oldest tree in the bunch, the lacklusterly-named Tree 76, is but a youth. The 249-foot-tall beauty is not some 1,500 years old as assumed, but a mere 777.