It is no secret that every tree, as, in principle, and everything that exists on earth, has its own life span. Some representatives of these plants do not last long, others can live for centuries. So, sea buckthorn is not a long-lived woman - on average, she is measured 25-30 years. Quince can delight a person with its fruits for about fifty years. And, for example, sequoia or baobab, if nothing prevents them, five millennia can live. And how many years does spruce live? Today we’ll talk about her.
Find out!
This evergreen tree of the Pine family, so familiar to our eyes, turns out to be among the centenarians. However, there are different spruces. The one that is common in Europe and Russia is called ordinary spruce. In the Urals and the Far East, you can find Siberian, and in the Caucasus - eastern. Glen spruce grows in Japan, black in America, and rough in China. Yes, all types and not list, there are a lot of them!
So how much does
ordinary spruce live
, the same one that brings joy to children on New Year's holidays? On average, it is 250-300 years. However, there are, of course, exceptions. For example, in the historical Dolarna province in Sweden, the oldest ordinary spruce on the planet grows. Just imagine, scientists believe that her age is 9550 years! It is difficult to even imagine how much this prickly beauty survived ... If she could speak, she probably could tell a lot of interesting and, of course, informative.
Black spruce, which grows in the United States, lives about 350 years. It is distinguished from other conifers by amazing oval-shaped cones: young ones have a rich purple hue, and fully formed “adult” cones become black and crimson. She is known for making famous wooden sticks for sushi and other oriental food from it.
Sith spruce
And how many years does the Sith spruce, the symbol of Alaska, live? On average, as much as ours is from 200 to 300 years. This wonderful shrub about a meter high is very popular in America when decorating parks, gardens and summer cottages. It turns out that such Christmas trees will be able to please their beauty with three or four generations of owners.
Now let's see how many years red spruce lives, growing in Scotland, New England and Canada. A little longer than our usual Christmas trees - up to four hundred years. And she got her name thanks to the reddish-brown cones.
Japanese beauty
But how many years does Japanese spruce, which is also called graceful, live? It boasts an even longer lifespan: up to 500 years. Japanese spruce is the most prickly among its friends. And it grows in a humid marine climate, on the volcanic soil of the Pacific coast. Who knows, maybe it is precisely in these favorable conditions that the secret of longevity of an elegant spruce lies ...
Little conclusion
Well, now you know almost everything about how much the spruce lives. And on New Year's Eve, dressing up a fragrant beauty, you can tell children interesting stories about these wonderful trees.