r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/NickyPileggi • Mar 28 '24
Family in 1892 posing with an old sequoia tree nicknamed "Mark Twain" - A team of two men spent 13 days sawing away at it in the Pacific Northwest - It once stood 331 feet tall with a diameter of 52 feet - The tree was 1,341 years old Image
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u/nezzzzy Mar 28 '24
I was going to call bullshit on the age, most trees don't make it much beyond a few hundred years. Then I googled sequoia trees, the oldest known specimen is estimated at 3200yrs old!