an olive tree's top tips for immortality

Unfortunately, while the way olive trees keep living is clearly great for longevity, the flip side is that it's completely rubbish for getting any sort of accurate dates or true ages. So precisely HOW old these trees are is and will always be up for debate.
But OLIVE them are lovely regardless 🍈

Olive Tree-Ring Problematic Dating: A Comparative Analysis on Santorini (Greece) by P. Cherubini et al. (2013