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is it true that the exact location of these bristlecones are supposed to remain secret because people could vandelize them?
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There's about a three mile loop trail that goes near the Methuselah Tree, but they don't tell you exactly where it is. That's reasonable, too many...
I guess it was too easy. They're all bristlecone pines. The little five footers could be hundreds of years old.
They're growing in dolomite, just a rocky mess with hardly any organic matter and really high pH. These guys are about ten miles from the area where the 4000+ year old ones grow...
Bingo, white mulberry. Around here they're usually the fruitless cultivar(s).
A friend has a fruiting M. nigra and the fruit is wonderful, though it makes a total mess. A client recently planted a fruiting M. alba with giant 3" delicious fruit.