Editing Pinus longaeva (section)

{{Short description|Long-living species of bristlecone pine tree found in the western United States}}
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| image           = Big_bristlecone_pine_Pinus_longaeva.jpg
| image_alt       = Very squat tree with a weather beaten gray half dead trunk and crown and living branches against a blue sky
| image_caption   = A tree in the [[Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest]], [[White Mountains (California)|White Mountains]], California
| status          = LC
| status_system   = IUCN3.1
| status_ref      = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Stritch, L. |author2=Mahalovich, M. |author3=Nelson, K.G. |date=2011 |title=''Pinus longaeva'' |volume=2011 |page=e.T34024A9830878 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2011-2.RLTS.T34024A9830878.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref>
| status2         = {{TNCStatus}}
| status2_system  = TNC
| status2_ref     = <ref name="NatureServe">{{cite web |last1=NatureServe |title=''Pinus longaeva'' |url=https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.137730/Pinus_longaeva |access-date=20 October 2024 |location=Arlington, Virginia |date=2024}}</ref>
| genus           = Pinus
| parent          = Pinus subsect. Balfourianae
| display_parents = 3
| species         = longaeva
| authority       = D.K.Bailey
| range_map       = Pinus longaeva range map 1.png
| synonyms_ref    = <ref name="POWO">{{cite POWO |id=197012-2 |title=''Pinus longaeva'' D.K.Bailey |access-date=20 October 2024}}</ref>
| synonyms        = {{Collapsible list | {{Species list
                 | Pinus aristata var. longaeva | (D.K.Bailey) Little (1979)
                 | Pinus aristata subsp. longaeva | (D.K.Bailey) A.E.Murray (1983)
                 | Pinus balfouriana subsp. longaeva | (D.K.Bailey) A.E.Murray (1982)
}}
}}
}}

'''''Pinus longaeva''''' (commonly referred to as the '''Great Basin bristlecone pine''', '''intermountain bristlecone pine''', or '''western bristlecone pine''')<ref name="FEIS">{{cite web|url=http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/tree/pinlon/all.html|title=Pinus longaeva|last=Howard|first=JL|year=2004|work=Fire Effects Information System|publisher=USDA|access-date=2008-12-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218082200/http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/tree/pinlon/all.html|archive-date=2008-12-18|url-status=live}}</ref> is a long-living species of [[bristlecone pine]] tree found in the higher mountains of [[California]], [[Nevada]], and [[Utah]].<ref name="Moore2008">{{cite book|author1=Moore, Gerry |author2=Kershner, Bruce |author3=Craig Tufts |author4=Daniel Mathews |author5=Gil Nelson |author6=Spellenberg, Richard |author7=Thieret, John W. |author8=Terry Purinton |author9=Block, Andrew |title=National Wildlife Federation Field Guide to Trees of North America|publisher=Sterling|location=New York|year=2008|page=82|isbn=978-1-4027-3875-3}}</ref> In 1987, the bristlecone pine was designated one of Nevada's [[List of U.S. state trees|state tree]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://leg.state.nv.us/general/nvfacts/index.cfm|title=Nevada Facts and State Emblems|publisher=State of Nevada|access-date=2016-02-04|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140327054558/http://www.leg.state.nv.us/General/NVFacts/index.cfm|archive-date=2014-03-27}}</ref>

[[Methuselah (pine tree)|Methuselah]] is a Great Basin bristlecone pine that is {{Age nts|-2832|8|5|format=commas}} years old and has been credited as the oldest known living non-[[Vegetative reproduction|clonal]] organism on Earth.<ref name="oldest">{{cite web|url=http://www.rmtrr.org/oldlist.htm|title=Oldlist|publisher=Rocky Mountain Tree Ring Research|access-date=2013-01-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130412091010/http://www.rmtrr.org/oldlist.htm|archive-date=2013-04-12|url-status=live}}</ref>