Editing Lagarostrobos (section)

==Age==
Huon pines are some of the oldest living organisms on the Earth.

A stand of trees in excess of 10,500 years old was found in 1955 in western Tasmania on [[Mount Read (Tasmania)|Mount Read]].<ref>Graham Lloyd, [https://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/weekend-australian-magazine/the-oldest-tree/news-story/16e5f9dd65ded005122d725ef2c12b00 "The oldest tree"], ''The Australian'', September 10, 2011. Retrieved 2018-03-22.</ref> Each of the trees in this stand is a genetically identical male that has [[vegetative reproduction|reproduced vegetatively]]. Although no single tree in this stand is of that age, the stand itself as a single organism has existed that long.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blognow.com.au/gumnuts/45647/Could_a_tree_be_10000_years_old.html|archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20070411140000/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/68811/20070412-0000/www.blognow.com.au/gumnuts/45647/Could_a_tree_be_10000_years_old.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2007-04-11|title=Could a tree be 10,000 years old?|work=Gumnuts - the ASGAP Blog|accessdate=2012-09-19}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

Individual trees in the clonal patch have been listed as having ages of 2,000<ref name="Parks+wildlife" /><ref>Cris Brack and Matthew Brookhouse, [https://theconversation.com/where-the-old-things-are-australias-most-ancient-trees-65893 Where the old things are: Australia's most ancient trees"], ''The Conversation,'' April 17, 2017: "the oldest in Australia could be a Huon pine (Lagarostrobos franklinii) in Tasmania, the oldest stem of which is up to 2,000 years old." Retrieved 2018-03-22.</ref> or even to 3,000<ref>[http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/file.aspx?id=6575 Huon Pine ''Lagarostrobos franklinni''"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628125126/http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/file.aspx?id=6575 |date=2018-06-28 }}, Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment, 2011: "Individuals have been known to reach an age of 3,000 years." Retrieved 2018-03-22.</ref><ref>Quinn, [http://www.conifers.org/po/Lagarostrobos.php Lagarostrobos franklinii], ''The Gymnosperm Database'', 1982: "Living trees sampled by increment borer have yielded ring counted ages of up to 2,500 years, and since these were not pith dates, it seems likely that there are living trees with ages in excess of 3,000 years (Balmer 1999)." Retrieved 2018-03-22.</ref> years old.

Because of the long life of individual trees, tree rings from Huon Pine have been used for [[dendrochronology]] to establish a record of climate variation.<ref>Cook, E.R., Francey, R.J., Buckley, B.M. and D'Arrigo, R.D., [https://web.archive.org/web/20180628125027/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/bc5c/b17c21a6e1945444f3c9e6ea442fb4003cd7.pdf  "Recent increases in Tasmanian Huon pine ring widths from a subalpine stand: natural climate variability, CO2 fertilisation, or greenhouse warming?"], ''Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania, vol. 130''(2), 1996, pp. 65-72. ISSN 0080-4703. Retrieved 2018-03-22.</ref>