Branches, needles and cones of the Bristlecone Pine. The longest living non-clonal organism on earth. Great Basin National Park, Nevada

The cone of a bristlecone pine. Only about the size of your thumb it has the potential for a life span of thousands of years. Great Basin National Park, Nevada

Tahoetyranno was hoping that during the thousands of years that this Bristlecone Pine had been living that perhaps it had met one of his ancestors. Great Basin National Park, Nevada