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REGENERATIVE CELLS IN PLANTS. "Other species, such as some herbaceous perennials, can also survive for centuries by keeping their meristems intact." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03360.x/full View in LinkedIn

PLANT MERISTEMS. "This structure allows perennial plants to explore the environment vertically in the search for light, and enables some of them to be very large and to have a very long life span. Some trees such as sequoias and pines, among others, can grow up to 100 m in height and survive for centuries and even millennia." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03360.x/full View in LinkedIn

APICAL MERISTEMS. "In contrast to most animals, plants have a tremendous plasticity in the form and function of their organs. This is particularly relevant in perennials, in which the apical meristem of at least one of their shoots remains indeterminate beyond its first phase of growth and development. Perennial plants organize their body growth in the vertical plane, based on the division and differentiation of meristems." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03360.x/full View in LinkedIn

10,000 YEAR OLD ENDOLITHS. "Some endoliths have extremely long lives. In August 2013 researchers reported evidence of endoliths in the ocean floor with a generation time of 10,000 years. These are slowly metabolizing, not in a dormant state." (Endoliths are extremophiles living inside rock). http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-living_organisms View in LinkedIn

80,000 YEAR OLD GRASS COLONIES. "A huge colony of the sea grass Posidonia oceanica in the Mediterranean Sea is estimated to be between 12,000 and 200,000 years old. The maximum age is theoretical, as the region it occupies was above water at some point between 10,000 and 80,000 years ago." http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest-living_organisms View in LinkedIn

ANCIENT PLANT CLONAL COLONIES. "Pando is a Populus tremuloides (Quaking Aspen) tree or clonal colony that has been estimated at 80,000 years old. Unlike many other clonal "colonies" the above ground trunks remain connected to each other via a single massive underground root system. Whether it is to be considered a single tree is disputed, as it depends on one's definition of an individual tree." https://lnkd.in/dseQDtg View in LinkedIn

CONTRARIAN. "The quaking aspen clones estimated to be over 10,000 years old, creosote bushes (Larrea tridentate) said to be 11,700 years old, and the 1400 year-old bracken ferns (Pteridium aquilinum) (Oinenen, all suffer from the same criticism." https://lnkd.in/esfPTAR View in LinkedIn

NEGLIGIBLE RISK OF DEATH. ""The combination of modular growth and dormancy in perennial plants, two features individually shared with some animals, increases their plasticity and strongly reduces the potential damage caused by aerobic life, to the extreme that the likelihood of dying from aging is, at best, negligible." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03360.x/full View in LinkedIn

NEGLIGIBLE RISK OF DEATH. ""The combination of modular growth and dormancy in perennial plants, two features individually shared with some animals, increases their plasticity and strongly reduces the potential damage caused by aerobic life, to the extreme that the likelihood of dying from aging is, at best, negligible." https://lnkd.in/d5nsZwQ View in LinkedIn

DORMANCY AND LIFE SPAN. "Shefferson, while evaluating different features of long-lived and short-lived plants in relation to plant size and reproduction, provided evidence for a relationship between vegetative dormancy and life span. In particular, he proposed that dormancy is an age-related response to stressful environmental conditions, increasing the life span of plants.” http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2010.03360.x/full View in LinkedIn