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A color portrait photo of a dead tree stump. The wood of this species of tree is extremely dense and rather than rotting after death it erodes. The stump is many thousands of years old and has eroded into fantastical textures, shapes, twists, spirals, and knots. It is light grey and light brown. It sits on a steep mountain slope surrounded by other living trees. Tall mountains are visible across a vast valley under a blue sky.

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A color portrait photo of a dead tree stump. The wood of this species of tree is extremely dense and rather than rotting after death it erodes. The stump is many thousands of years old and has eroded into fantastical textures, shapes, twists, spirals, and knots. It is light grey and light brown. It sits on a steep mountain slope surrounded by other living trees. Tall mountains are visible across a vast valley under a blue sky.
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Pinus longaeva (Great Basin bristlecone pine) at ~3,048m (10,000ft) in the White Mountains of California. P. longaeva are the oldest known living non-clonal organisms on Earth. One tree, named Methuselah, is estimated to be 4,855yrs old. The dead stump pictured below was likely several thousand years old when it died and has been dead for a couple of thousand years. P. longaeva wood is so dense, it does not rot, rather, it erodes like rocks do.
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