Alerce Milenario

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Alerce Milenario (Spanish: "Millennial Alerce" or "Millennial Larch") or Gran Abuelo, also known in English as Great-Grandfather, is the largest tree in Chile's Alerce Costero National Park. While it has been on the list of oldest trees, this Alerce tree (Fitzroya cupressoides) is now rivalling others to be possibly the oldest tree in the world. In 2020, Jonathan Barichivich and Antonio Lara, of the Austral University of Chile, used an increment borer to carefully retrieve a partial sample.

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