Roughly 380 to 450 years old.
Oldest trees in Pennsylvania
The oldest tree we map in Pennsylvania is The Brandywine Sycamore (Lafayette Sycamore) in Chadds Ford, at roughly 400 years. We map 6 trees across 3 places in Pennsylvania, each one researched and verified.
Pennsylvania's oldest trees have been standing through American history since before it had a name. At Chadds Ford a sycamore roughly four hundred years old was already mature when the Battle of Brandywine broke around it in 1777, beside a house the wounded were carried into. In Philadelphia, a ginkgo at Bartram's Garden is one of three saplings shipped from London in 1785, the first of their species to reach North America. Pittsburgh keeps its remarkable trees in parks rather than on streets: in Mellon Park a bald cypress grows far from any swamp, a katsura smells of burnt sugar every autumn, and a lacebark pine sheds its bark in patches. The city also names Giving Trees, chosen for what they do for everything living around them rather than for how big they are.
Every place we map in Pennsylvania
6 species grow in Pennsylvania
Oaks White Oak 1
Planes American Sycamore 1
Conifers Bald Cypress 1 · Ginkgo 1 · Lacebark Pine 1
More broadleaf trees Katsura 1
The 2 oldest trees we map in Pennsylvania
Roughly 235 to 245 years old.
Trees from Pennsylvania also appear in Autumn Worth the Trip · The Tallest Trees We Have Measured · The Oldest Tree in Every City We Map. See every place we map in the United States, or open the map to find what is near you.