With life coursing through its interconnected roots and stems, this organism, named Pando, challenges our very definition of what it means to be a single living being. Incidentally, its name comes ...
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 ...
Pando is a quaking aspen tree found in Utah's ... being 47,000 genetically identical stems connected to an enormous subterranean root system, as per LiveScience. The tree spread across the ...
So when conditions aren't perfect, they stick to sending up new shoots from the mass of roots under the grove. Pando has survived this way for a long time, but scientists are worried it may not ...
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 ...