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[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You should see the ones where I live in California that have been alive for over a thousand years. It's wild.

The biggest one in the state park I grew up near is over 270 feet tall, about 16 feet wide, and nearly 1500 years old. And that isn't even the oldest one in California