There are bald cyprus trees in the Blackroot Swamp in Virginia, USA that have been scientifically dated to be 830 years old.
Transcript from Youtube video source*:
"The oldest trees in Virginia that have been dated are bald cypruses on the Blackwater River. They were dated by a geoscientist from the University of Arkansas and we know there are trees in the Blackwater Swamp that are 833 years old and Dr. Staley [spelling?] suspects that there are probably thousand-year-old trees in that swamp."
(Location in the video: 4:32-4:56 minutes.)
*Souce: "Remarkable Trees of Virginia" Youtube video by ResearchChannel. WWW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW2EqjP0ghE&feature=plcp. Nancy Ross Hugo, garden writer talks about her book, Remarkable Trees of Virginia, co-written with professor of forestry Jeff Kirwan.
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