Do trees die from old age? how and why?

Question

Do trees die from old age? how and why?

In: Biology

Answer 1

A tree dies because it will grow so large it cant support its own physiology any longer. Sometimes they become so large they simply break, sometimes they become so large they have difficulty providing enough nutrients to support the large trunk so they become stressed enough to succumb to some secondary disease or fungus.

Some trees this process takes a few decades, some thousands of years.