Stockholm-based studio Goldin+Senneby has created the Spruce Time installation in Sweden, a climate-controlled chamber that houses a clone of one of the world's oldest trees.
Situated on the grounds of a new hospital campus in Malmö, the installation by Goldin+Senneby was designed as a "living artwork" where visitors can observe and engage with the tree as it grows.
The installation sits on a new hospital campus in Malmö
The sapling inside it was cloned from a 9,550-year-old spruce tree named Old Tjikko, located on the Fulufjäll mountain in Sweden, before being planted within the chamber.
To obtain the clone, small twigs cut from the tree's top branches were grafted onto stems of other spruce trees ? creating saplings of identical DNA to Old Tjikko, with a survival rate just above 50 per cent. The sapling was cloned from a 9,550-year-old spruce tree
"Old Tjikko on Fulufjäll mountain has already cloned itself over the course of millennia," studio co-founder Simon Goldin told Dezeen.
"It is the genetic individual ? not the tree on the mountain ? that is nearly 10,000-years-old, and the small clone now planted at the hospital in Malmö is the same genetic individual," Goldin explained.
"In that sense, it is the oldest spruce in the world at the very beginning of its life."

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The clone is held ...