Growing up in LA, I took my dad’s innate green thumb for granted — and frankly, didn’t even consider his skills as covetable until my late 20s. But after killing an alarming number of plants in my own ...

In the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, a remarkable organism known as Pando stands as the largest living organism on Earth by mass ...

Throughout the mountains of the American West, carvings hidden on the trunks of aspen trees tell the stories of the ...

Fertilize once per year and add mulch to protect roots and keep them cool. Aspen trees are vulnerable to infection from a number of sources. Common problems include fungal diseases like Cytospora ...

CUSTER - The spindly aspen shoots shivering in the breeze at Dale Bartos' feet are children of the Jasper Fire. But their biological ancestry goes back to a time long before the blaze that seared ...

Inspired by the dark “eyes” of the aspen tree — scars left behind on the ... an eco-friendly textile fashioned from mycelium (AKA the root structure of various types of fungi, including ...

Despite their amateur roots, they sing a flawless “Joy to the World” at the Aspen tree-lighting ceremony. John runs through the highlights of history in Aspen, from silver mining to railroads ...

Aspen grow differently than other tree species. Rather than spreading through seeds, aspens send out shoots, called suckers, from giant, interconnected root systems. Each stand, or “clone ...

However, aspen also has the ability to send up new young shoots, or suckers, off the root system of an established tree, sometimes up to 30 metres away, if the tree is large. These suckers are ...

When the roots are disturbed and there is lots of sunlight, new trees sprout with as many as 1 million sprouts per acre. Aspen wood is lightweight and fairly weak and bendable. But, in spite of ...

The new sprout is a clone of the original tree, and many cloned aspen trees can grow from the same root system. Aspen clones are some of the largest organisms on the planet. A single aspen clone ...