If the root system between patches is severed ... 2008). The ability of aspen to produce whole stands of "trees" vegetatively provides yet another key element in explaining the species’ ability ...

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 ...

Pando is an ancient quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) with 47,000 genetically identical stems, or tree trunks, connected to a vast underground root system. Each stem is a clone of the one ...

Wildlife is eating alive Earth's largest and oldest organism, the Pando aspen tree in Fishlack National Forest in Utah. Pando is a 106-acre forest of cloned aspen trees originating from a single ...