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1 The famous longest-lived species; often the term Bristlecone pine refers to this tree in particular.  Rocky Mountains bristlecone pine Pinus aristata in Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona. The most populous species; capable of forming closed canopies and, unlike the other two, is commonly cultivated.
How can it and its kind survive, much less thrive, in conditions that would strike fear into the phloem of virtually all other plants? After decades of intense study, inaugurated in the 1950s by the legendary dendrochronologist Edmund Schulman, scientists are starting to get a grip on what makes bristlecone pines so Methuselah-like.