Alerce Tree

Alerce Tree

 

The Alerce Tree was discovered in 1993 in a grove in the Andes Mountains of Chile!

It is a majestic evergreen tree and scientists estimate the giant is 3,620 years old. Although Patagonian cypresses can reach 150 feet or around 46 meters in height, they gain only a millimeter in girth each year and can take a thousand years to be fully grown.