Great Basin bristlecone pines are restricted to the mountain ranges of California,...

Both trees are Great Basin Bristlecone Pine located in California.

A grove of ancient Great Basin Bristlecone Pines grows on this plateau near the peak.

The longest-lived is the Great Basin Bristlecone Pine, Pinus longaeva.

Higher up on the glacial moraine is a grove of ancient Great Basin Bristlecone Pines of great age.

Although named after the Limber Pine, the range might better be known for its large and vigorous stand of Great Basin Bristlecone Pines.

Currant Mountain is a habitat for ancient Pinus longaeva - Great Basin Bristlecone Pines.

The oldest known individual tree (that has not taken advantage of vegetative cloning) is Methuselah, a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine.

The harshest areas have Limber Pine and ancient Great Basin Bristlecone Pine, some more than 1,600 years old, holding on.

Immediately to the north is a large flat sub-alpine area called The Table, which supports an ancient stand of Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva).

Pinus longaeva, the Great Basin Bristlecone Pine, is a long-living species of tree found in the higher mountains of the southwest United States.

The Great Basin montane forests include ancient Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) trees.

"The Methuselah" is the proper name given to the second oldest known Great Basin Bristlecone Pine in California's Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest.

The oldest non-clonal organism ever discovered, a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine tree at least 5000 years old, grew at the treeline near Wheeler Peak in the National Park.

Several large groves of ancient Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) trees thrive in the Great Basin montane forests of the range's higher elevations.

The Methuselah Grove in the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest is the location of the "Methuselah", a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine more than 4,750 years old.

Leaf persistence in evergreen plants varies from a few months (with new leaves constantly being grown as old ones are shed) to several decades (over thirty years in the Great Basin Bristlecone Pine).

Stands of Limber Pine and Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) can be found in some of the higher ranges (the Methuselah tree is nearly 5000 years old).

The Inyo National Forest contains the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, which protects specimens of Great Basin Bristlecone Pines (Pinus longaeva).

In 1993 a specimen from Chile was found to be 3622 years old, making it the second oldest fully verified (by counting growth rings) age for any living tree species, after the Great Basin Bristlecone Pine.

Prometheus (aka WPN-114) was the oldest known non-clonal organism, a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) tree growing near the tree line on Wheeler Peak in eastern Nevada, United States.

The Foxtail Pine is closely related to the bristlecone pines, being classified in the same subsection Balfourianae; it has been hybridised with the Great Basin Bristlecone Pine in cultivation, though no hybrids have ever been found in the wild.

Bristlecone pines in the White Mountains of California and elsewhere were discovered to be older than any species yet dated, and in 1963 Currey became aware of a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine population in the Snake Range and on Wheeler Peak in particular.

Inyo County is north of San Bernardino County and most well known as the home of Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the lower 48 states; Death Valley, the lowest point in the U.S.; and the Great Basin Bristlecone Pines, the oldest living trees in the world.

The longest-lived is the Great Basin Bristlecone Pine, Pinus longaeva.

Currant Mountain is a habitat for ancient Pinus longaeva - Great Basin Bristlecone Pines.

State trees: Single-leaf Pinyon pine and Bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva)

It is a Great Basin bristlecone pine (Pinus longaeva) called Methuselah growing in the White Mountains.

Immediately to the north is a large flat sub-alpine area called The Table, which supports an ancient stand of Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva).

The Great Basin montane forests include ancient Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) trees.

Several large groves of ancient Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) trees thrive in the Great Basin montane forests of the range's higher elevations.

Stands of Limber Pine and Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) can be found in some of the higher ranges (the Methuselah tree is nearly 5000 years old).

The Inyo National Forest contains the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest, which protects specimens of Great Basin Bristlecone Pines (Pinus longaeva).

Prometheus (aka WPN-114) was the oldest known non-clonal organism, a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine (Pinus longaeva) tree growing near the tree line on Wheeler Peak in eastern Nevada, United States.

The List of long-living organisms non-Clonal colony organism ever discovered, a Great Basin Bristlecone Pine '(Pinus longaeva)' tree at least 5000 years old, grew at the treeline near Wheeler Peak in the National Park.

According to Hamann and Seehann, as of 1983 it contained 1541 plant taxa in the arboretum and greenhouse; more recent figures increase that figure to 1570 taxa representing 126 families from all continents, including Taxodium distichum (about 70 years old) and Pinus longaeva.