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Maximum Age Of Trees


Palm, 250 years;

elm, 355 years;

cypress, 388 years;

ivy, 448 years;

maple, 516 years;

larch, 576 years;

lemon, 640 years;

plane, 720 years;

cedar, 800 years;

chestnut, 860 years;

walnut, 900 years;

lime, 1,076 years;

spruce, 1,200 years;

oak, 1,600 years;

olive, 2,000 years;

yew, 2,880 years;

baobab, 5,100 years;

dragon, 5,900 years.



Eucalyptus, or Australian gum-tree, sometimes grows twenty-four feet in

three months: bamboo, two feet in twenty-four hours.



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