2007-10-07 01:40:54 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
i guess so ! ^_^
2007-10-07 01:43:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes they do. An interesting question today about plants aging and its effect on propagation.There is a lot of confusion on this subject because woody trees don't age like we do. Higher animals have a system of cell division that ages each new cell (by using telemeres), thus creating a life span. I have heard that plant chromosomes also have telemeres, but they don't act in the same way, so that each new cell is a ... new cell, age zero. Some plant individuals are tens of thousands of years old, happily asexually propagating in an ever expanding shrubby circle. Asexually propagated grapevines can originate from an individual from Roman times.
So, when you asexually reproduce a woody tree from one year old wood, you have a new individual no matter how old the parent tree is. Trees don't die from 'old age', they die because of system failure, either environmental, or physiological. They develop hollow trunks, are subject to weather forces, disease, insects, etc. They often increase their bulk to an extent that cannot be supported. If their physiology allows easy adventitious bud formation or back budding, they may virtually start over after a catastrophe, but if not, they die. This is how those shrubby ring formation last millennia.
2007-10-07 01:46:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
i had 2 massive ash trees in my garden, they were really old and one night we had this huge storm...next morning the biggest one was down on the floor, when the wood cutters came to remove it they said that the tree had a disease that attacked the roots which weakened it...the other ash came down about 3 weeks later of the same disease, i don't think they die of old age though....but it would be interesting to fine out if they do...
2007-10-07 01:46:07 · answer #3 · answered by Dazzlebox 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some tree's grow weaker and weaker due to acid erosion and damage from animals etc, and they eventually go wekaer until they die. So Yes, I think.
2007-10-07 01:46:01 · answer #4 · answered by Zorro. 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The ones that don't get chopped down, blown over, or die of disease will eventually die of old age.
2007-10-07 01:44:16 · answer #5 · answered by Mr.Longrove 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No, usually from rot or lightnening strikes for larger ones.
2007-10-07 02:09:52 · answer #6 · answered by Mo 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
probably after a couple o hundred years xx
2007-10-07 02:41:41 · answer #7 · answered by angel eyez xx 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
2007-10-07 02:47:09 · answer #8 · answered by Felix 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋