ancient pine

small slow-growing pine of western United States similar to the bristlecone pine; chocolate brown bark in plates and short needles in bunches of 5; crown conic but becoming rough and twisted; oldest plant in the world growing to 5000 years in cold semidesert mountain tops

イガゴヨウに似た米国西部の小型で成長の遅いマツ；板状のチョコレート色の樹皮と5本束生の短い針葉を持ち、円錐形の樹冠は次第にごつごつとねじれる；寒冷な半砂漠の山頂で5000年まで生きる世界最古の植物