The Counting Pine thinks so…
The other notable feature of this remarkable plant is that it produces, at eye-height, numbers detailing its precise age. Its chain of reasoning is as follows; being dimly aware that humans can tell a tree’s age by counting its rings, it has reasoned this must be why humans cut trees down .
Unfortunately, within a year they were driven almost to extinction by the house number-plate industry.
Terry Pratchett Reaper Man
