bristlecone pine
The oldest living species of pine tree.
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These include intermountain and Colorado bristlecone pines, redbay, silkbay, swampbay, pignut hickory, Alaska paper birch, and 14 varieties of oak (all current varieties in the Register except Bigelow and Durand oaks). In a mile and a half, the trail reaches a plateau occupied by a curious-looking lot of trees, the bristlecone pines. The comparison between these two species is not exact, however, since the oldest bristlecone pines grow only at high elevations in an arid desert, notes Thomas P. |
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