Depends how you look at it. If you keep raising off-shoots from cuttings, you are essentially producing extensions of the very same plant and you can do that indefinitely. Think about it like cloning: an individual plant will eventually die, but it’s clone will survive and can still propagate.
Plants are not biologically immortal like some lobsters for example.
Do plants die of old age though? Now that question has been put in my head, I need to know.
Be back in a bit, going down a rabbit hole.
Given the right conditions, some plants can live indefinitely. Others die shortly after seeding.
There’s a bristlecone pine tree in the White Mountains of California that is nearly 5000 years old.
Depends how you look at it. If you keep raising off-shoots from cuttings, you are essentially producing extensions of the very same plant and you can do that indefinitely. Think about it like cloning: an individual plant will eventually die, but it’s clone will survive and can still propagate.
Plants are not biologically immortal like some lobsters for example.
Vine plants are especially weird.
So… Do they?
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wait until you get to the part about the Ginkgo tree
It is the horseshoe crab of trees