| ancient pine 
 
 small slow-growing pine of western United States similar to the bristlecone pine;
 chocolate brown bark in plates and short needles in bunches of 5;
 crown conic but becoming rough and twisted;
 oldest plant in the world growing to 5000 years in cold semidesert mountain tops
 • Syn:
 Pinus longaeva
 • Hypernyms:
 pine, pine tree, true pine
 
 
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