Bristlecone and Limber Pine (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

Bristlecone and Limber Pine

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Gnarled, dead bristlecone pine trees, which can live to be more than 5,000 years old, stand where young limber pine grow around it. Limber pine is beginning to colonize areas of the Great Basin once dominated by bristlecones.

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Brian Smithers/UC Davis

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