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by Someone 971 days ago
> A tree's year is as our day

That’s exaggerating. The life expectancy of a human is in the order of 30,000 days.

Reading https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_trees, and ignoring clonal trees (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetative_reproduction), 6,000 years seems to be the upper limit.