As we mentioned before, trees have been with us since long before we were born, and many of them will even be alive the day we die.
These living beings, in addition to being beautiful and setting the gardens very well, offer us various benefits and advantages. We can find fruit trees, ornamental trees in nature, etc. And in addition to providing shade, food and others are essential for the life of the planet.
Today, we bring you 4 characteristics of trees, which will help us to know and appreciate them in a better way:
- Size: When you want to plant a tree in your garden and you are going to the place to buy it, it is important that you know its dimensions and how much they can measure once it has grown into an adult tree. For example, if you want to plant a tree in a small interior patio, it is best to choose a small one, which when it grows only reaches a few meters. Although this recommendation and characteristic seems obvious and very obvious to many, it is one of the most frequent problems when buying a tree, that we do not know its dimensions and we have little information about the plant we are growing.
- Shapes: each species of tree has a specific and typical shape. There are trees with a spherical or round crown, others with a pendulum shape and so on. For this reason if we have enough space we can plant a long tree, while if we want to get a lot of shade we can plant one in a spherical shape.
- Growth speed: Some people do not like to acquire trees, since they fear that they will take a long time to grow, however there are trees that grow very fast (more than 1 meter per year) such as poplars, eucalyptus, the acacia, the ficus, or the banana. While others that have a very slow growth such as Yew, they may not grow more than a few centimeters during those 365 days.
- Longevity: Although many trees can live for more than 100 years, others such as the medlar, the quince and the acacias can barely reach 30 years of age. Among those that are very long-lived, we can find chestnut, elm, lime, etc.
In very long-lived trees, you should not leave the olive tree that can live more than 2000 years, the yew that lives 2500 years, the redwood that lives between 2000 and 3000 years, and of course the long-lived pine that can live 5000 years.
Hi July.
Yes, indeed, there are many very long-lived trees.
Thanks for naming a few. There's more here. Greetings!