{"id":100,"date":"2019-11-21T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=100"},"modified":"2019-11-15T18:28:31","modified_gmt":"2019-11-15T23:28:31","slug":"trees-that-age-gracefully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2019\/11\/21\/trees-that-age-gracefully\/","title":{"rendered":"Trees That Age Gracefully"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Shagbark hickory (Carya ovata<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
Trees transition from youth (seedling), middle age and old age\u00a0(maturity)\u00a0before requiring a chain saw and replacing. Some age gracefully, actually appreciating in $$ value. Many ginkgo, hickory, beeches, sugar maples, and Southern magnolias live 100 years plus. Oaks such as\u00a0such as\u00a0white (Q. alba<\/em>) and live oak (Q. virginiana<\/em>)\u00a0mature in majesty\u00a0 over\u00a0several hundred years.<\/div>\n
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It’s not hard to determine why some of these trees live more than one hundred years. Pedigree, heredity, germplasm, or whatever term you use to describe tree genetics is the key factor.\u00a0Planting location, water and sunlight requirements, soil fertility, plant nutrition, and biological factors such as damaging diseases and insects, animal foraging, and air pollutants) are all key secondary determinants.<\/div>\n
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Location also refers to places where humans and trees interact. Examples: 1. Tree in an urban park setting should live and prosper longer versus one in a parking lot; 2. Tree planted along a busy avenue compared to one growing an asphalt desert\u00a0(parking lot); 3. Tree in a National forest versus one growing in\u00a0a Georgia swamp.<\/div>\n
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In urban areas tree longevity is generally alot shorter due to the hostile environment of a parking lot. Large trees find life difficult growing under utility lines and power poles. The important message here is to think before you plant.<\/div>\n
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Here is a short list of trees with long life maturities:<\/strong><\/div>\n
Paperbark maple (Acer griseum<\/em>)<\/div>\n
Full Moon maple (Acer japonicum<\/em> ‘Aconitifolium’)<\/div>\n
Japanese maple (Acer palmatum<\/em>) – hundreds of beautiful cultivars<\/div>\n
Sugar maple (Acer saccharum<\/em>)<\/div>\n
Manchu striped maple (Acer tegmentosum<\/em>)<\/div>\n
Three flowered maple (Acer triflorum<\/em>)<\/div>\n
American hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana<\/em>)<\/div>\n
European hornbeam (Carpinus betulus<\/em>)<\/div>\n
Assorted hickory species (Carya\u00a0 spp.<\/em>)<\/div>\n
Atlas cedar (Cedrus atlantica<\/em>)<\/div>\n
Katsura tree (Cercidophyllum japonicum<\/em>)<\/div>\n
Alaska cedar (Chamaecyparis nootkatensis<\/em>)<\/div>\n
Chinese dogwood (Cornus kousa<\/em>)<\/div>\n
American beech (Fagus grandifolia<\/em>)<\/div>\n
European beech (Fagus sylvatica<\/em>)<\/div>\n
Ginkgo, Maidenhair tree (Ginkgo biloba<\/em>)<\/div>\n
Red Cedar (Juniperus virginiana<\/em>)<\/div>\n
Southern magnolia (Magnolia grandiflorum<\/em>)<\/div>\n
Dawn redwood (Metasequoia glyptostroboides<\/em>)<\/div>\n
Black gum, Tupelo tree (Nyssa sylvatica<\/em>)<\/div>\n
Persian ironwood (Parrotia persica<\/em>)<\/div>\n
Lacebark pine (Pinus bungeana<\/em>)<\/div>\n
American sycamore (Platanus occidentalis<\/em>)<\/div>\n
Douglas fir tree (Pseudotsuga menziesii<\/em>)<\/div>\n
Assorted oak species (Quercus spp<\/em>.)<\/div>\n
Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens<\/em>)<\/div>\n
Giant sequoia (Sequoia gigantean<\/em>)<\/div>\n
Bald cypress (Taxodium distichum<\/em>)<\/div>\n
American linden, Basswood (Tilia americana<\/em>)<\/div>\n
Assorted elms (Ulmus spp.<\/em>)<\/div>\n\n\n
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American hornbeam (Carpinus carolinana<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trees transition from youth (seedling), middle age and old age\u00a0(maturity)\u00a0before requiring a chain saw and replacing. Some age gracefully, actually appreciating in $$ value. Many ginkgo, hickory, beeches, sugar maples, and Southern magnolias live 100 years plus. Oaks such as\u00a0such as\u00a0white (Q. alba) and live oak (Q. virginiana)\u00a0mature in majesty\u00a0 over\u00a0several hundred years. \u00a0 It’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[818,922,839,834,1082,1105,11,972,868,1498,650,674,806,1115,820,800,10,1208,774,1083,1051,816,153,639,862,1383,853,623,1133,865,551,627,1457,1084,999,202,843,729,1445,777,630,1002,1114,1466,7,1334],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12808,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions\/12808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}