In Switzerland the oldest fir-tree in the world was found out

The usual fir-tree is the typical representative of coniferous central and eastern Europe and may grow to the extent of prominent 50 meters. However, only ten-meter-old Old Tjikko found in 2004 by the geologist Leif Kullman and called upon the name of hid dead dog is considered as the oldest living tree on the Earth.

In order to be more accurate, Old Tjikko is the oldest famous separated clonal tree in the world. It means that it began to take roots at the end of the last Ice Age when Great Britain and Europe were connected by ice bridge, and Scandinavian glacier only just began to blench.

Leif Kullman, the professor of physical geography of Umea University, explained that for these thousands years Old Tjikko endured cloning for many times. Despite the fact that modern fir is relatively young (only several hundred years), its root system is featured by the number of millenniums. The true age of the verily old tree in the world was recognized by the scientists with the help of radiocarbon analysis collected under the ground of planting material.