Sisters Olive Trees of Noah
The Sisters Olive Trees of Noah are a grove of sixteen olive trees in the Lebanese town of Bcheale.[1]
According to local folklore, the trees are at least 5,000 years old, perhaps even 6,000 years old or older.[2] [3] However in 2024 a study using carbon dating found the oldest tree to be only 1,162 years old, plus or minus 131 years. This makes it the oldest known olive tree in the world.[4]
Folk legend also ascribes The Sisters as the source of the olive branch returned to Noah's Ark at the waning of the Biblical Flood.[5] [6] The trees still produce olives, and a preservation effort was undertaken by the non-profit organization Sisters Olive Oil, which marketed oil from these olives.[6]
See also
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ Linda Pappagallo (January 8, 2013). "The World's Oldest Living Olive Trees Are Lebanese". Green Prophet. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
- ^ Ingo Helbig (February 14, 2013). "Rare variants and olive trees". Beyond the Ion Channel. EuroEPINOMICS. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
- ^ Carol Drinkwater (2011). The Olive Tree. Orion. pp. 18–. ISBN 978-0-297-85750-1 . Retrieved 8 September 2012.
- ^ Camarero, J. Julio; Touchan, Ramzi; Valeriano, Cristina; Bashour, Isam; Stephan, Jean (April 2024). "Dating the Noah trees to improve age estimates in centennial and millennial olive trees". Dendrochronologia. 84 126181. Bibcode:2024Dendr..8426181C. doi:10.1016/j.dendro.2024.126181. hdl:10261/354303 . Retrieved 14 January 2025.
- ^ Dima Sharif. "Olive Oil Ice Cream & The Ultra Premium EV Olive Oil Harvested From The Oldest Living Olive Trees On Earth". Dima Sharif, Bringing Food to Life. Retrieved April 28, 2013.
- ^ a b T.K. Maloy (October 31, 2012). "Bechealeh's ancient trees still producing high-end olive oil". The Daily Star (Lebanon). Retrieved April 28, 2013.
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