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 ...

I was up in the White Mountains this weekend, walking out to my car in the AMC’s Highland Center parking lot after a hike, ...

Aspen trees do tend to form clonal stands elsewhere ... for ever-dwindling water resources (the nearby Fish Lake is just out of reach of the tree's root system), temperatures expected to continue ...

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 ...

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 ...