<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/34792877-b4af-4ee6-8fe6-54ddcff7be75/31EB454F-494B-447B-AF93-65EA19F844D3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://veryveryfun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=1" href="http://veryveryfun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=1" style="font-size: 11px;">veryveryfun.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://veryveryfun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=1"><table background="undefined" bgcolor=""><tr><TD width="100%" class="contentheading"><SPAN> World's Oldest Living <A target="_blank" id="clicksor_sp_tree" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Tree</A>-9,550 year old </SPAN></TD></tr></table></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://veryveryfun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=1"><SPAN>The world's oldest recorded tree is a 9,550 year old spruce in the Dalarna province of Sweden. The spruce tree has shown to be a tenacious <A target="_blank" id="clicksor_sp_survivor" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">survivor</A><SPAN> that has endured by growing between <A target="_blank" id="clicksor_sp_erect" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">erect</A><SPAN> <A target="_blank" id="clicksor_sp_trees" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">trees</A><SPAN> and smaller <A target="_blank" id="clicksor_sp_bushes" href="http://serv.clicksor.com/go.php?nid=1&cpx=cpc&uid=2083022557&pid=98869&sid=146173&kw=bushes&curl=http:%2F%2Fmeta.7search.com%2Fclick%2Fclick.aspx?x=0kCIPvDzQ8g2UAAj5CTysA==_GjEPAvh8z1V8qhvIn9fx5cXeno0v4z5yDtwCNqoyLtLbPCOJ2A1VrM686rmrNN%2fylJXbC4XEtoToQYjlbl4sjflgPL%2fUHazZJnATIJxnND0P8lDPBcduCKAkXUh%2bLg0No4kiqpx6b7Oxm%2bNBvcPsTah3IObmQyuWJhQMPbbpKik=">bushes</A> in pace with the dramatic climate changes over time.</SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://veryveryfun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=1"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/veryveryfun.com/img/235F6327-5B77-4E03-88DE-7D66BD5D789C" alt="World's Oldest Living Tree" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://veryveryfun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=1"><SPAN> For many years the spruce tree has been regarded as a relative newcomer in the Swedish mountain region. "Our results have shown the complete opposite, that the spruce is one of the oldest known trees in the mountain range," says Leif Kullman, Professor of Physical <A target="_blank" id="clicksor_sp_geography" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">Geography</A><SPAN> at Umeå <A target="_blank" id="clicksor_sp_university" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">University</A>.</SPAN></SPAN></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://veryveryfun.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=1"><SPAN> A fascinating <A target="_blank" id="clicksor_sp_discovery" href="javascript:alert('This link contains javascript. Please visit the clip source to follow this link.');" target="_self">discovery</A> was made under the crown of a spruce in Fulu Mountain in Dalarna. Scientists found four "generations" of spruce remains in the form of cones and wood produced from the highest grounds.</SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/31EB454F-494B-447B-AF93-65EA19F844D3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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