OK - I cheated a bit - see why here -
http://www.theage.com.au/daily/990703/news/specials/news20.html
but note the 43,000years+ date on the Lomatia tasmanica! :-)
Huon Pine is a bit special - it doesn't rot. A fallen log was carbon dated
at over 22,000 years since death and it was still millable. Unbelievable
timber. So valuable now that they've logged them under water with air
driven saws in dam drowned vallies. Old boats made of it are more
collectable than white Zuikos.
And just to keep on topic - nice rainforest pic of a sapling here, probably
not taken with an OM.
http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/veg/huon1.html
Andrew
>I don't want California to be outdone so I looked up Huon Pine.
> <A HREF="http://www.enviroweb.org/edf/ishappening/trees/trees_huonpine.html";>
>Tree Rings - Huon Pine</A>
> <A HREF="http://www.tased.edu.au/tot/fauna/huon.html";>Tour of Tasmania: Huon
>pine</A>
>Seems these at least are only 2000 years old or so.
>
>Warren
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