By Costas Deliyiannis
A Bosnian pine (Pinus heldreichii) high atop the Pindus mountain range in northern Greece was recently identified as the oldest tree in Europe at 1,075 years old, following a study by a research team from the universities of Stockholm, Mainz and Arizona.
The millennium pine, nicknamed “Adonis” by researchers, is found only a few kilometers from the frontier of Albania, and would have emerged from a seedling in the decade beginning in 940 AD, decades before the pinnacle of Byzantium.
The university researchers also dated at least another 10 trees exceeding 1,000 years of age at the specific site.
