Millennium-old olive trees of the Iberian Peninsula are younger than expected

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - 10:31 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Northeast Spain is home to olive trees so old that they are known as "millennium-old." A group of scientists have now studied their age. The oldest is to be found in the Catalan region of Montsia and is 627 years old making it one of the oldest olive trees recorded in Europe.

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