The worlds longest living tree, spruce, spring pruning - 18

Did you kow that the oldest living single specimen of any bush or tree is spruce?

The swedisj spruce, "Old Tjikko", named after the dog of the guy who found it is almost 10 000 years old.

https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tjikko

Spring Pictures #4

Pruning Spruce

Norway Spruce

Old Tjikko & a collected smaller spruce

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picea_abies

While searching for species detalis on wiki i also found this interesting article about the worlds oldest "standalone" tree which is of the same species as my little spruce, well worth a look. 9550 years is pretty impressive I think. : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Tjikko. 

Pot by wallsall studios.