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 ...

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 ...

A few years ago, we cut down a dead aspen tree, removed the stump but not all the roots. Another small aspen started growing nearby and seems to be doing well. Our problem is the woody bumps, or ...

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 ...

The Pando aspen clone is an ancient, sprawling tree system in Utah, and it is slowly caving in on itself. Scientists think they know why.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...