Newsweek on MSN8 天
The World's Largest Living Organism is Being Eaten Alive
On the slope of a Utah mountain, a 106-acre colony of cloned aspen trees is under threat from wildlife and climate change.
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Pando: The world's largest tree and heaviest living organism
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 ...
Greek Reporter8 天
Earth’s Largest and Oldest Living Organism is Being Eaten Alive
Wildlife is eating Earth’s largest and oldest organism, the Pando aspen tree in Fishlack National Forest in Utah. Credits: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Wildlife is eating alive Earth’s ...
ScienceAlert9 天
Earth's Largest Organism Slowly Being Eaten, Scientist Says
Found in my home state of Utah, "Pando" is a 106-acre stand of quaking aspen clones. Although it looks like a woodland of individual trees with striking white bark and small leaves that flutter in the ...
Business Insider India8 年
This looks like a forest, but it's actually just one tree - and it's one of the oldest and ...
The most famous example of a clonal grove is Pando, a grove of quaking aspen in Utah's Fishlake National Forest. Its name means "I spread" in Latin, and for good reason. Pando is among the largest ...