Name Age
(years) Species Location Country Notes
| Methuselah | 4,851 [nb 1] | Great Basin bristlecone pine Pinus longaeva | White Mountains (California) | United States | It is the oldest-known living tree in the world. [7] |
Prometheus (WPN-114) | 4,844 | Great Basin bristlecone pine Pinus longaeva | Wheeler Peak, Nevada | United States | Cut down by Donald Rusk Currey in 1964. [8] |
| Gran Abuelo | 3,648 | Patagonian cypress Fitzroya cupressoides | Cordillera Pelada, Los Ríos | Chile | Alive. [8] [9] Located within Alerce Costero National Park. [10] |
| CBR26 | 3,266 | Giant sequoia Sequoiadendron giganteum | Sierra Nevada, California | United States | Dead. [8] |
| D-21 | 3,220 | Giant sequoia Sequoiadendron giganteum | Sierra Nevada, California | United States | Dead. [8] |
| D-23 | 3,075 | Giant sequoia Sequoiadendron giganteum | Sierra Nevada, California | United States | Dead. [8] |
| CMC 3 | 3,033 | Giant sequoia Sequoiadendron giganteum | Sierra Nevada, California | United States | Dead. [8] |
| Scofield Juniper | 2,675 | Western Juniper Juniperus occidentalis | Sierra Nevada, California | United States | Dead. [8] |
| BLK227 | 2,625 | Bald cypress Taxodium distichum | Three Sisters Cove, Black River (North Carolina) | United States | [11] |
| CB-90-11 | 2,462 | Rocky Mountain Bristlecone Pine Pinus aristata | central Colorado | United States | [8] [12] |
| Panke Baobab | 2,419 | African Baobab Adansonia digitata | Matabeleland North | Zimbabwe | Dead in 2011; the oldest non-clonal angiosperm ever documented. [13] |
| Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi | 2,305 | Sacred fig Ficus religiosa | Anuradhapura, North Central Province | Sri Lanka | A sapling from the historical Bodhi tree under which the Buddha became enlightened. It was planted in 288 BC and is the oldest living human-planted tree in the world with a known planting date. [8] |
| ? | 2,200 | Coast Redwood Sequoia sempervirens | northern California | United States | Dead. [8] |
| Bennett Juniper | 2,200 | Western Juniper Juniperus occidentalis | Sierra Nevada, California | United States | [8] |
| SHP 7 | 2,110 | Foxtail Pine Pinus balfouriana | Sierra Nevada California | United States | [8] |
| BLK232 | 2,089 | Bald cypress Taxodium distichum | Three Sisters Cove, Black River (North Carolina) | United States | [11] |
| ? | 1,945 | Subalpine Larch Larix lyallii | Kananaskis, Alberta | Canada | [8] [14] |
| CRE 175 | 1,889 | Rocky Mountain Juniper Juniperus scopulorum | northern New Mexico | United States | [8] |
| Miles Juniper | 1,831 | Western Juniper Juniperus occidentalis | Sierra Nevada, California | United States | [8] [15] |
| Jomon Sugi | 1,808 | Sugi Cryptomeria japonica | Yakushima Island | Japan | [16] |
| KET 3996 | 1,721 | Limber Pine Pinus flexilis | Ketchum, Idaho | United States | [8] [17] |
| BFR-46 | 1,697 | Limber Pine Pinus flexilis | Wasatch Mountains, Utah | United States | [8] |
| FL117 | 1,681 | Northern Whitecedar Thuja occidentalis | Ontario | Canada | [8] [18] |
| ERE | 1,670 | Limber Pine Pinus flexilis | northern New Mexico | United States | [8] |
| RCR 1 | 1,666 | Foxtail Pine Pinus balfouriana | Sierra Nevada, California | United States | [8] |
| ? | 1,661 | Limber Pine Pinus flexilis | South Park (Park County, Colorado) | United States | [8] |
| BBL 2 | 1,649 | Foxtail Pine Pinus balfouriana | Sierra Nevada, California | United States | [8] |
| BCK 69 | 1,653 | Bald cypress Taxodium distichum | Bladen County, North Carolina | United States | [8] [19] |
| ? | 1,636 | Nootka Cypress Callitropsis nootkatensis | Vancouver Island | Canada | [8] |
| FL101 | 1,567 | Northern Whitecedar Thuja occidentalis | Ontario | Canada | [8] |
| ? | 1,542 | Limber Pine Pinus flexilis | central Colorado | United States | [8] |