bristlecone pine
Množina: bristlecone pines
Small slow-growing upland pine of western us having dense branches with fissured rust-brown bark and short needles in bunches of 5 and thorn-tipped cone scales; among the oldest living things some over 4500 years old.
The oldest living species of pine.
Either of two pines (Pinus longaeva and p. aristata) of the western United States that include the oldest living trees called also bristlecone
Pinus aristata · Rocky Mountain bristlecone pine
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