How many years can the plane tree live?

Sycamore is a very common tree, many urban roads will plant sycamore, and even the legendary "Phoenix" does not inhabit without sycamore, so how many years can sycamore live?

First, how many years can the plane tree live?

Sycamore trees can generally live for more than a hundred years. There is an ancient sycamore tree in Hetian, Xinjiang. This ancient sycamore tree is about 30 meters high, with a trunk breast diameter of 2.7 meters, a trunk chest circumference of 8.75 meters, and a crown covering 1.5 mu of the ground. The age of the tree was determined by the relevant experts of the Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences to be about 1000 years.

Second, the introduction of plane tree

Sycamore grows fast, wood is suitable for making musical instruments, bark can be used for papermaking and ropes, and seeds can be eaten or pressed for oil. Because of its smooth trunk and beautiful leaves, it is a famous ornamental tree species. Many legendary guqins are made of sycamore, which plays an important role in Chinese culture. Writer Feng Zikai's article "plane Tree" of the same name can be called a good one. Sycamore has been introduced to Europe, America and many other countries as an ornamental tree.

Third, the characteristics of plane trees

Indus like light, like good drainage, wet deep acidic or neutral and calcareous soil; cold-resistant, drought-resistant, barren-resistant, avoid planting in stagnant water depression and saline-alkali land; not resistant to waterlogging and grass famine, bark is not resistant to intense sunlight. Chinese parasol has strong taproots, long life, and can live for more than a hundred years. It has weak sprouting ability and late sprouting in spring, but leaves fall early in autumn.

Most of the sycamore is artificially cultivated, easy to survive, but also resistant to pruning, and can be widely planted as street greening tree species. As a fast-growing timber tree species, it can also be used to decorate the garden and front of the house. Sycamore has strong adsorption to toxic gases such as sulfur dioxide and chlorine; its wood is light and soft and can be used to make wooden boxes and musical instruments; seeds can be eaten or squeezed oil; root bark, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds can be used medicinally, with heat-clearing and detoxification. Cure diarrhea, hernia, hair early white effect; wood chips can be leached mucus, bark fiber can be used for papermaking and rope weaving and other materials.

Plane tree is a common ornamental tree, there are many plane trees are very old, so we need to protect the old tree.