Adonis: Europe's oldest living tree

According to a report in Science News, Europe’s oldest living thing is a tree growing in the Pindus Mountains of Northern Greece.

The Bosnian pine, one of a dozen very old specimens in the area, was examined by scientists from Stockholm University.

A core sample taken from the tree had 1,075 rings, giving a seedling date of around AD941. Having lived through the entire 2nd Millennium, this remarkable survivor has been named ‘Adonis’, after the ever-youthful Greek god, represented as a handsome young man.