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 ...

SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, California (AP) — High in the evergreen canopy of General Sherman, the world’s largest tree, ...

A slice of giant sequoia paradise containing the fifth largest tree has been privately owned ... resilience of a forest unlike any other on Earth — with giant sequoia trees that are thousands ...

This story appears in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a gentle slope above a trail junction in Sequoia National Park, about 7,000 feet above sea level in the southern ...

Think of a tree and what comes to mind probably ... Pando is among the largest and oldest organisms on Earth. Its 47,000 stems cover more than 100 acres. Scientists have sequenced the genome ...

Known as Thimmamma Marrimanu, the tree, which is located in the small village of Kadiri in Andhra, holds the title of the largest banyan tree not only in India but in the world. The gigantic tree ...

In Lunt, which is the largest tree planting project, trees will be planted on 78 hectares of land recently purchased from Sefton Council by the National Trust. Paul Harris/National Trust The ...

is not the tallest tree on Earth. Nor is it the widest or the bulkiest. Its trunk, though a massive eight metres in diameter, is smaller than that of the largest tree, the General Sherman redwood. But ...