{"id":9158,"date":"2018-05-26T17:27:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T00:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9158"},"modified":"2018-06-10T17:32:14","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T00:32:14","slug":"the-oldest-tree-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/26\/the-oldest-tree-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Oldest Tree In Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2018\/05\/oldest-tree-europe-italy-pine-climate-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>from National Geographic<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"main-title md-title mt_col-12 mt_col-lg-9\">Oldest European Tree Found\u2014And It&#8217;s Having a Growth Spurt<\/h1>\n<h2>A Heldreich&#8217;s pine discovered in southern Italy has been thriving in a remote part of a national park for 1,230 years.<\/h2>\n<p>By <span class=\"byline-component__contributors\"><strong>Sandrine Ceurstemont<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/content\/dam\/news\/2018\/05\/25\/europe_oldest_tree\/01_italus3.adapt.590.1.jpg\" alt=\"Picture of millennium-old pine tree, named Italus,\" width=\"480\" \/><span style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Scientists determined the age of this 1,230-year-old Heldreich\u2019s pine, nicknamed Italus, using a novel combination of tree-ring analysis and radiocarbon dating. PHOTOGRAPH BY GIANLUCA PIOVESAN<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A craggy pine tree growing in southern Italy is 1,230 years old, making it the <a href=\"https:\/\/esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1002\/ecy.2231\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">oldest tree in Europe<\/a> that has been scientifically dated.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the ancient pine seems to be living it up in its old age, researchers reported last week in the journal <i>Ecology<\/i>. Examinations show that the tree had a growth spurt in recent decades, where larger rings were added to its trunk even though <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0168192317300722\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">many trees in the Mediterranean region have been experiencing a decline in growth<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery shows that some trees can survive for centuries even when subjected to extreme changes in climate. This ancient pine, for example, would have germinated in a cold period during Medieval times and then lived through much warmer temperatures, including periods of drought. (Find out <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2012\/02\/120221-oldest-seeds-regenerated-plants-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">how scientists brought a 32,000-year-old plant back to life<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/2018\/05\/oldest-tree-europe-italy-pine-climate-science\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click to continue reading at Nat Geo<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from National Geographic Oldest European Tree Found\u2014And It&#8217;s Having a Growth Spurt A Heldreich&#8217;s pine discovered in southern Italy has been thriving in a remote part of a national park for 1,230 years. By Sandrine Ceurstemont Scientists determined the age of this 1,230-year-old Heldreich\u2019s pine, nicknamed Italus, using a novel combination of tree-ring analysis and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}