This single genetic individual weighs around 6,000 metric tons. By mass, it is the largest single organism on Earth. Aspen trees do tend to form clonal stands elsewhere, but what makes Pando ...

Pando is an ancient quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides ... to 40 blue whales or three times the world's largest single-stem tree — California's General Sherman giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron ...

In Scotland today, most aspen reproduction occurs by this method, creating stands of genetically identical trees connected by their shared root systems, forming a single multi-stemmed organism.

A single clone may exhibit multiple colors ... 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 ...