A love letter to the Western Trembling Aspen ...

In the Wasatch Mountains of the western US on the slopes above a spring-fed lake, there dwells a single giant organism that ...

This remarkable colony of quaking aspen trees (Populus tremuloides ... Even bolder estimates propose that this clonal organism, which appears to consist of 47,000 separate trees, might have been ...

This hulking ‘clonal’ stand of aspen is the largest living single organism on Earth, and although it has survived for millennia, today it’s under unprecedented pressure. Pando is formed of 47,000 ...

The clonal quaking aspen known as Pando is between 16,000 and 80,000 years old. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Pando ...

Similar studies on other clonal organisms may even push the aspen from its perch. There's a patch of Posidonia oceanica seagrass off the Spanish island of Formentera which some venture might be ...

As mentioned above, Pando is a quaking aspen—an iconic and lovely species found throughout Utah. But Pando isn’t a single tree, which is why it isn’t listed alongside giants like Methuselah when ...

By mass, it is the largest single organism on Earth. Aspen trees do tend to form clonal stands elsewhere, but what makes Pando interesting is its enormous size. Most clonal aspen stands in North ...

shorter-lived aspen trees are easier to determine. At more than 4,800 years, the bristlecone pine called Methuselah is known as the oldest, non-clonal tree in the world. Pioneer trees are those ...

“A stand of aspen trees is actually one giant organism, a large clonal colony which has reproduced from a single seed and spread by root suckers,” the Colorado Native Plant Society website sai ...