if plants can age and if they can die of old age.

Question

I am wondering if plants can die of old age. I have never witnessed a plant just get grey and die, so do plants age and if so, how?

Trees and others obv get bigger, but I’m wondering if their existence has a built in limit, like mammals do.

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Answer 1

Yes, but also no. For example there’s a creosote bush in the US (Arizona?) that from memory is called King Klone. It’s estimated to be almost 12,000 years old. The interesting thing here is that this creosote bush is more of a colony and reproduces via cloning.