What is the average lifespan of a tree?

Answer 1

Up in White Mountains in Eastern California is the Ancient Bristlecone Pine forest. There is a trail called the Methusela trail of which is the name of a tree located there. This is the oldest known living thing in the world. I believe the estimate is 4500-5000 years old.

Answer 2

Trees, like people, have a natural life cycle and a finite life span. Trees grow up, grow old, and eventually die. The lifespan of a tree is influenced by a variety of natural events, including the availability of water, sun, the presence or absence of wind, fires, insects, and diseases and human clearing and impacts

EDIT:

Wrong, the above described potential death. Not a life span.

A life span is the theoretical age a being can live before dying.

There is NO record of a tree that's died of old age. All have died from disease, natural disasters, or attacks by other species, like clear-cutting and animals/insects eating through it.

In theory, trees that are well taken care of could live forever. There are records of trees that are possibly one thousand years old.

EDIT ADD ON: What theory exists regarding how long anything can "live" before dying? Where did 'EDIT' find such a theory? Does this mean that in this mythological theory the universe will exist forever? Has EDIT surveyed all trees that have died? The entire population of every tree that has ever existed? Probably not. Such sweeping generalizations are empty. Well, let me amend that. If the person tending them could live forever, perhaps the tree being tended could also?

@Add on: "EDIT" just stated that there's no record of trees that die of old age.

So there is no "natural" life span that can be recorded.

It's up to people to prove a fact with evidence, not dimiss the doubts that aren't proven.

That means "No record of natural death" = no way to measure "natural life span"

Disease, accidents, disasters don't count as natural death. Otherwise, baby-deaths would mess up everything.

Answer 3

It always depends on the species of trees. Reframe your question

-Greg

Answer 4

some trees are alive since the pilgrims came in the United States in 1620

Answer 5

a tree is a wooden plant that can live up to the age of 100 ! but most common trees live upto the age of 30 !

Answer 6

If it is an Oak Tree it can live hundreds of years

Answer 7

It depends what type of tree. Most live for about 80-100 years, but some have lived for over 500!

Answer 8

the gincko tree can live up to 199.6 millon years

Answer 9

up to about 2,000 years old