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Typically we might think the answer is “one” but actually the answer is “two”. Different rings are grown in the spring and summer. If you think about it, if there were only one ring, how could we tell where one year’s growth ended and the next began? This is the case in some tropical trees . . . and they cannot be aged by counting rings.
