Just off Bessemer Mine Road, not far from Pioneertown, in California’s Mojave Desert stands what appears to be an unremarkable ring of shrubs. To a casual observer, it looks like a cluster of ordinary creosote bushes growing in a circle. Yet this humble patch of vegetation is one of the most extraordinary living things on Earth. Known as King Clone, it is estimated to be about 11,700 years old—older than nearly every human civilization that has ever existed. Scientists consider it one of the oldest living organisms on the planet.
King Clone. Credit: Wikimedia Commons
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King Clone: The 11,700-Years-Old Bush
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