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Originally Posted by Cinisajoy
Well if you had googled you would have seen that our tree could have been cromag's tree great (26 times at least grandfather).
Ok so I don't know a tree's reproduction cycle or even if they are the same tree but our tree is 400 years or so older than the New Jersey tree.
Our tree is on an island.
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What? You lost me with that information. The Treaty Oak is in Austin, TX, not on an island. And it is estimated to be around the same age at 600 years. Perhaps you are discussing another tree and I somehow missed that bit. Both trees likely predate any European exploration and settlement in the USA, although the Vikings apparently had briefly explored NE Canada in a limited way around 1000 CE. So both trees were sprouted (?) during a period of North American history when the native peoples were essentially still stone age hunter gatherers. Europe and Asia and Africa had long since moved into a modern era, but not North America. Not that any of that matters, but it is kind of cool to think that those trees have lived that long.
There are redwood trees along the Pacific coast that are three times older though.