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Published: 2015-10-30 10:10:14 +0000 UTC; Views: 291; Favourites: 42; Downloads: 0
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At some point, there was likely a pasture here. Lime-trees don't generate naturally here unless the circumstances are exceptional, but around it a small forest of lime-trees emerged from the forgotten tree's roots.Fun fact: since they clone themselves, lime-tree groves are often the same individuals as a thousand years ago. Coolest thing ever.
(Partly to prove that I'm alive. Don't draw as much as I used to.)
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To me it seems that this is not a tree at all, but an Ent. So it might have walked there
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Please don't say that, we are trying to save it and to save it we'll likely have to prune it....
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Good luck with saving it. It would be a pitty to lose such a unique piece of nature. Even if there's a little bit less of it left afterwards.
I recently read that Sweden probably has the oldest trees of the word and that some of them are almost 10.000 years old. Is that true?
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It largely depend on how you define age of trees. We have, to the best of my knowledge, no individual stems that can boast more than about a thousand years, but there are individuals that are likely pre-ice age that have survived through various clones. Many other species have migrated here (spruce, apart from said clones, from the north, other species from the south and so on) after that.
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Pre-ice age clones sound fascinating.
It's good to know someone who has such a profound knowledge of trees
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You’re the only person I know who doesn’t simply take a photo of a grove or a cool looking tree like this and that’s it, but thinks about how the individual kind of tree comes to be there. That makes me happy. Also to see that you're still alive of course 
The fun fact is, by the way, fun indeed. I hope I'll remember it to pass on my newly gained superfluous knowledge. Superfluous knowdledge is the best kind of knowledge.
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<3 It is my job, after all. We use to joke that biologists say "Oh, this is a cool place, let's keep it!" and foresters say "Oh, this is a cool place. What processes made this, let's keep them!" Not entirely true, but still...
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I know too many people who do NOT enjoy their jobs, and I’m desperately struggling now not to become one of them…
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