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Nela Heidner

More than 1,100 years old: Germany's oldest tree discovered

Trees age very slowly. The reason is that they constantly renew their tissues: needles or leaves, bark, twigs, trunk and roots are continuously regenerated while older parts gradually die off.

A remarkable fact: while trunk and crown are exposed to wind, weather, animals and loggers, a tree's vast underground root system can continue to live on, hidden from view, for much longer.

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