The King Clone is estimated to be over 10,000 years old.
One of the oldest organisms on the planet lives in the Mojave Desert, which extends across the territory of the US states of Arizona, California, Nevada and Utah, he writes. IFLScience. the King clone creosote bushes (Larrea tridentata) and forms a ring of genetically identical plants.
To verify the age of the plant, the researchers measured how long it took for the saplings to grow outward in a ring, and also performed carbon isotope dating in the middle of the group. Both methods led to the conclusion that it is indeed a very ancient shrub. Frank Vasek of the University of California, Riverside also found that jungles were one of the first life forms to expand in the Mojave Desert after the last ice age.
The original central shrub has died, but the shrubs surrounding it are direct clones of the original plant. The root system of the first bush gradually grew outward and new clones were created, which eventually formed the 22 x 8 meter ring we see today.
Although they are impressively old, they are not the oldest life forms on Earth. The address is in Utah, Bando From a colony of the so-called tree, which may be 14,000 years old. Unfortunately, the organism dies.
