Some tree species form colonies from a single root system. A single root system of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) can grow into a grove of its own.Individual trees may die, but sprouts come ...

What looks like 47,000 separate trees spread out over 106 acres in Utah are actually all offshoots from a single, massive Aspen tree root. It’s known as Pando and it is believed to be the ...

Its trees are united by a single root system. Scientists say deer are voraciously eating Pando's new sprouts, preventing the clone from regenerating. It could deteriorate beyond recovery in less ...

Even the oldest non-clonal trees in the world, at some 4000+ years of age, don't approach the age of the root system of this organism, known as Pando, or the Trembling Giant. 80,000-Year-Old Root ...

Meet Pando, thought to be the world’s largest living thing by mass. It’s a forest, but all of its 47,000 aspen trees come from a single root system spread over 106 acres in Utah, making it ...

Pando consists of a vast root system with nearly 50,000 cloned stems, ... DNA samples from one of the world’s largest and oldest plants — a quaking aspen tree ...

Sweeping across 107 acres of Utah’s Fishlake National Forest is one of the world’s largest organisms: a forest of some 47,000 genetically identical quaking aspen trees, which all stem from a ...