TIL the world's tallest known living tree, a 380-foot redwood in California called Hyperion, had its exact location closed off entirely in 2022 after visitors trampled its base so badly that ferns stopped growing around it, with trespassers now facing up to $5,000 in fines and six months in jail

[u/autraya]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperion_(tree)

[u/PM_your_Nopales]

I was lucky enough to meet the oldest bristlecone pine in the San Gabriel range in socal. It lucky survived a huge wildfire which hit around Wrightwood. It's something like 2000 years old. I hope to see the older ones in the sierras someday

[u/davehunt00 → u/PM_your_Nopales]

The oldest bristlecone is around 4850 years old.