How can you tell age of a tree

How can you tell age of a tree

Do you know age of a tree planted around you? As a tree grows, its trunk thickens as new wood is added in the middle of the trunk. The age of a tree can be judged not only  by the thickness and height of a tree but also by the number of circles on the trunk. Each circle indicates roughly a year. In fact if find any severed tree you will see number of concentric circles in a cross section of trunk growing from the middle outwards. The space between…