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Hi.? I have a Ficus Microcarpa that is about 15 years old (Amazon sent me a tree already well-established) and was wondering how long the lifespan of the 名媛直播 should be--assuming pests and diseases can be avoided, and watering and repotting are all good?? I also was wondering if the lifespan of the various indoor bonsai can be generalized--being a tree, I would expect that bonsai can be a family heirloom passed down through the generations?? Thanks.

Trees do not age in the same way as animals. They do not face detoriation in the same way. Quite the oppsite, they just grow stronger and stronger throu out their lifes.?A natural tree in the forest grows every year and is only limited to what weight the ground, roots and trunk can support. One day the crown is too big to support and it will fall. Normally during a storm. Sometimes just one big branch cracks and it can live for quite a few years more until it is too heavy again. Eventually it will fall and die. Even thou it can be up to thousend years.

A bonsai do not face this risk as we encourage thick trunks, tie the tree into the pot and prune it all the time. So given correct care a bonsai can live forever. The oldest known living bonsai is thought to be over a thousend years.

I did not know that trees get stronger over time--everything I have heard of gets weaker over time (giant turtles have a very long life span, but they get old and die well before anywhere near 1,000 years--and the tree you mentioned is still alive). That characteristic of trees is remarkable.

There are no indoor bonsai or any indoor plants for that matter, depending on the species a tree can live for anything from 20 years upwards.

a1872 wrote: I did not know that trees get stronger over time-

It is also not completely correct.

Plant DNA does not decay as animal DNA. Our DNA decays a little as cells multiply, and at a certain point we have reached the end of our DNA decay options (Look into telomeres).

Trees face decay over time however, just like anything else. Broken branches or damage to the bark allows fungal infections leading to internal decay, borers, birds etc cause damage too. At some point the integrity of the tree trunk and/or branches starts to wither.

Because every year of growth a new layer of tissue is created the "active" part of the plant is always new however. But also in trees vitality reduces over time and all species have a species-specific life-expectancy. For Birches in the Netherlands this is e.g., 50-100 years. Oak trees can live for over 1,000 years; however, a more normal age would be around 600 years. It is said that an oak spends 300 years growing, 300 years living and 300 years in slow decline.

Back to the ficus: The bonsai claimed to be the oldest, is a ficus, located in Italy at Crespi bonsai. This has an recorded history of over a thousand years.

So.. Yes, bonsai can become family heirlooms. It does however require skill and dedication, as a few days inattentiveness can mean the death of a potted tree.

Human Anatomy and Physiology I love--I had a great high school teacher who taught us roots and suffixes like out of the word erythropoietin--eryrhro for the red blood cell part, then poietin meaning "to make".? So the telomeres I know about; scientists think that if we can find a way to keep telomeres from being reduced, we would lengthen life.? Michio Kaku wrote this one book--The Physics of the Future, where he says that human life will be a lot longer and healthier in the future due to things like drinking solutions that increase the speed that our cells heal with (so no real ageing, which is basically damage to cells), monitoring for chemicals that we leave when we excrete, like p-53, which the book says is present in about half of all cancers.? Kind of like human life in Medieval versus Modern--there's a YouTube that says if a King were transported to this time, one of the things he would find shocking is that almost everyone is healthy--doctors, medicines, etc.? Unfortunately, when I went to Truman University as a transfer (I had a brain injury in my Junior high school year, so stayed here and went to a college about ten minutes away), they made me take beginning biology, where I had to study things I hated (plants and sea creatures; plants cannot do anything like a human, we can make the world to be like what we want, while plants don't seem to be able to be very active, and for sea creatures, the shark--a thing made out of cartilage and muscle).? I should have taken a test for a red-, or yellow-card to bypass the beginning stuff that I had no interest in; they did that at the Junior College--with the A and P professor recognizing that I did well in a class in the professor's field, and knew the teacher of the class did a great job teaching.? Plants are cool with me now--at least the bonsai; it's really cool to have a tree so small that it can grow in a pot in the house, besides being a living heirloom for a REALLY long time. ??