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Can Trees Live Forever? New Kindling for an Immortal Debate – The New York Times
Some trees can live for thousands of years, but we may not be around long enough to really know whether they can die of old age.
Dr. Munné-Bosch points to some potential limits. For instance, the vascular tissue that ginkgos produce gets thinner and thinner each year. At some point, it could become too thin to function, killing the tree, he said.
Ginkgos also suffer more physiological stress as time goes by, along with a depleted supply of growth hormone. Despite their miraculous vascular cambiums, its probable that even ginkgo trees may die from natural causes, said Richard Dixon, one of the authors of Januarys ginkgo p…
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