Oldest Olive Tree Israel
Researchers identified the health origin and age of eight olive trees in the garden.
Oldest olive tree israel. In 2010 two teams one from italy and another from japan carbon dated al. It s growing in a grove just above the village of deir hanna in the north of israel one of five there that have attained record breaking ages. The al badawi olive tree in bethlehem which researchers peg to somewhere between 4 000 and 5 000 years old is likely the oldest living olive tree in the world. Though the tree is exceedingly old.
I was a part of a group of. The al badawi tree is one of a handful of olive trees in the eastern mediterranean that are more than 2 000 years old. Olive trees of gethsemane among oldest in world olive trees in the jerusalem garden at foot of mount of olives has been declared at least 900 years old.