Growth and shape of trees - page 2/4

Table of maximum sizes
Maximum size | Trees |
Shape /
crown | Growth | Size |
Width |
Lifespan | in 10/20 years | > 50 m
| Douglas | conical | fast | 5 / 18m | 3 m | 600 years | Maritime pine | irregular | fast | 6 / 13m | 5 m | 600 years | Scotch Pine | irregular | fast | 5 / 13m | 3 m | 300 years | White fir | conical, tabular crown | fast | / 10m | | 800 years | 40-50 m
| Cedar of Lebanon | graduated | slow | / 9 m | | 300 years | Norway Spruce | conical | fast | 6 / 13m | 3 m | 200 years | Larch | conical | fast | 6 / 15m | 3 m | 800 years |  | English Oak |
large |
fast | 6 / 15m | 3 m | 700 years (1) | European Ash |
ovoid |
fast |
4/9 m | | 200 years | Beech | ovoid |
slow |
/10 m | 2 m | 500 years | Black poplar |
large |
fast | 10 / 20m | 1 m | 200 years | Tuliptree | | fast | 5 / 12m | 2 m | 500 years, R | 30-40 m
| Spanish chestnut | large |
fast |
/10m | | 200 years | Sycamore |
large | slow | 2,5 / 4m | 1,5 m | 250 years | White Elm | |
fast |
| | 400 years | Oriental Plane | rounded |
fast |
| | 500 years (2) | Black Locust | globular |
slow |
4 m | 2 m | 200 years (3) | Bigleaf Linden | ovoid |
slow |
4 m | 3 m | 1000 years | 20-30 m |
| Cypress | columnar | fast | 10 m | 1 m | 500 years | Ginkgo |
spread, light |
fast | 7 m | 2,5 m | 500 years, R | Holly (male) | conical |
slow |
3 m | 1,5 m | 200 years |  | Italian Alder | conical | fast | 5 / 15m | 3 m | 200 years | Service tree | | | | | 500 years | Norway Maple | ovoid | fast | /10 m | | 150 years | Liquidambar | |
slow |
4 m | 1,5 m | 300 years | Wild cherry tree | of a pyramid |
fast |
/15 m | | 200 years | Wisconsin Weeping Willow | |
slow |
5 / 20m | 2,5 m | 100 years | 10-20 m |
| English Yew | irregular | slow | 2 m | 0,6 m | 2000 years |
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Common birch | pendulous |
fast |
/12 m | 2 m | 50-100 years | Hornbeam | ovoid |
slow |
8 m | 4 m | 150 years, R | Negundo maple |
ovoid |
| 5/6 m | 3 m | 80 years | Horsechestnut | large |
fast |
5 m | 2 m | 200 years | Black mulberry | conical | | 3 m | 1,5 m | 400 years, R | Walnut | large |
bit fast |
3 m | 1,5 m | 300 years | Whining willow | weeping | | 6 m | 5 m | 100 years | Varnish Tree | in bowl | fast | 3 m | 1,5 m | | Rowan | conical | | 4 m | 2 m | 100 years | <10 m |
| East Arborvitae | conical |
|
| | | Juniper | columnar |
slow |
| | |
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Hawthorn | spread | | 4 m | 3 m | 500 years | Catalpa | large | fast | 3/10 m | 1,5 m | | Japanese Cherry | spread |
|
4 m | 2 m | | Laburnum | spread | | 5 m | 2 m | 30 years | Fullmoon Maples | |
slow |
3 m | 2 m | |
Remarkable subjects:
1) some oaks are more than 2000 years old.
2) the plane tree from Hippocrate on Kos island (Greece) would be more than 2000 years old. It is broken down into several trunks on 5 metres in diameters, and its branches are supported with numerous crutches.
3) the locust tree of the Garden of plants, Paris, was planted in 1632 by Jean Robin, botanist of the king Henry IV, who gives it his name.
R = resistant to pollution (charm, ginkgo, mulberry, tulip tree of Virginia).
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