How old can a tree be?

Answer 1

jeez loise, that person is smaaa-art! == == Trees, like people, have certain average ages beyond which they seldom live. The Sequoia lives several thousand years, but an Aspen-grove begins to break up at about ninety, and the best yields are obtained at about twenty-five, as the growth after that is very slow. The Poplar, Balsam-Fir, and Gray Birch, depending on the character of the soil and how well they are cared for, begin to go between sixty and eighty; the Lodge-Pole Pine between one hundred and twenty and two hundred; the Beech and the Maple have been known to live three hundred and four hundred years; the Douglas Fir, Sugar-Pine, and Western Larch, five hundred; the Redwoods one thousand to one thousand five hundred; while, if you happen to live in California and have a likely young Sequoia growing on your place, you may not see it gathered to its fathers until after its five-thousandth birthday!

To reach the average age of its kith and kin a tree should have plenty of room for the spread of its branches and its roots. For this reason trees in the open country are considerably longer-lived than those in the tree cities, the forests. And the better they are fed -- i.e., the better the soil -- the faster they grow and the stronger and more valuable the wood.

Answer 2

trees have been around for quiet some time. the way to tell how old a tree is, is to look at the rings that are in the trunk, you can take a hallow drill bit, and drill into the side fo the tree, it does not hurt the tree if you are gental and you do not do it in the same spot over and over again.

Answer 3

That depends on the species of tree: some redwood trees are more than 2000 years old and the bristlecone pine trees (in the photo above) include the oldest living organism at more than 5000 years old. But most common trees cannot live longer than a couple hundred years under the best conditions.

Answer 4

forever until the environment changes so durasticly

Answer 5

Well trees are normally described as being "high" or "tall" rather than "long" because they grow "up" not "out".

The tallest trees may be over 100 meters high.

Answer 6

over a 100,000 years old.