Bakhar Bengena Tree or বাখৰ বেঙেনা গছ (অসমীয়া) of Assam:-The Bakha Bengana tree is
a 700(believed to be) year old is located at Bakata, 30 km from Sivasagar,Assam. There is a belief that this 3 meter high tree was planted by famous Barahi King Mahamanikya of Jayantipur. The tree was discovered by famous botanist of India U N Kanchilan in 1939 gave the scientific name as Rendia Ulizinsa.
This legendary tree, which very well has a scope of making it to the list of
some of the oldest living trees of the planet is still a mystery to the botanist and environmentalist of the world.The plant lack sexual reproduction and more interestingly scientist could not able to reproduce it artificially. After 2 years of research by The Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany,Lucknow using Radiocarbon
Dating and Genetic Matching confirmed that the age of this tree could be around 580 years.
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