How Long Can a Ping'an Tree Live? A Detailed Introduction to Its Lifespan

The Ping'an tree is also called Lanyu cinnamon, and it is a beautiful potted foliage plant, very lovely, and it also carries the meaning of a tree that keeps you safe. So how long can a Ping'an tree live?

1. How long can a Ping'an tree live?

If cared for well, a Ping'an tree can live for several decades or even over a hundred years, depending on the local environment and the level of care.

The Ping'an tree is both a beautiful potted foliage plant and a very lovely garden landscape tree. Besides its bright green leaves, attractive plant shape, tolerance of shade and ease of management, Lanyu cinnamon also has a distinctive fresh fragrance throughout the whole plant, making it extremely suitable for placement in residences, hotels and similar places. It carries the meaning of a tree that keeps you safe, and it sells very well in the flower market.

2. The Growing Environment of the Ping'an Tree

It is distributed in southern Taiwan, China (Lanyu). It grows in forests. It likes warm, humid and sunny environments, enjoys light but also tolerates shade, and prefers warm, hot places with no frost or snow and with much fog and high temperatures. It does not tolerate drought, waterlogging, severe cold or dry air.

3. The Morphological Characteristics of the Ping'an Tree

It is an evergreen tree, about 15 m tall, and its leaves, branches and bark have almost no fragrance when dry. The branches and twigs are brown, cylindrical and hairless. The leaves are opposite or nearly opposite, ovate to oblong-ovate, 8-11 cm long and 4-5.5 cm wide, with a sharp apex and a rounded base, leathery, green and glossy on the upper surface when fresh and grayish green when dry, nearly the same color and dull on the lower surface, hairless on both sides, with triplinerved veins arising from above the base, the lateral veins emerging about 1 cm from the leaf base and gradually disappearing or forming inconspicuous netted connections near 3/4 of the leaf, sometimes with an additional lateral vein on each side near the leaf margin, and the fine veins obvious on both surfaces, forming a shallow honeycomb-like network; the petiole is about 1.5 cm long, concave above and convex below, reddish brown or brown.

Flowers not seen. The fruit is ovoid, about 14 mm long and 10 mm wide; the fruit cup is cup-shaped, with short rounded teeth on the margin, hairless, and the fruit stalk is about 1 cm long, hairless. The fruiting period is August to September.

The Ping'an tree is very suitable for ornamental use and also has a unique fragrance, making it a very good ornamental plant.