When out for a hike I had the pleasure of tracking down one of the gentle ancient beings of our planet. A tree that has managed to live through a process called clonal layering for almost 9500 years making it one of the oldest organisms on Earth.

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ABOUT OLD RASMUS
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Old Rasmus is a Norway spruce and it lives on a hillside in Sweden. I will not be sharing its exact location for the tree's safety as we all know how bad people can be. I find this to be an inspiring example of nature's resilience and ingenuity. This is why I want to restore and protect as much of the natural world as possible.


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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....Old_Tjikko](https://

http://www.oldtjikko.se/OldRasmusSonfjallet.html

https://www.jstor.org/stable/4....2950615](https://www

https://www.gardeningknowhow.c....om/ornamental/trees/

https://www.researchgate.net/p....ublication/309020304

https://www.semanticscholar.or....g/paper/Redistributi