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 ...
Weighing an estimated 6,000 tons—roughly the same as 40 blue whales—and spanning an area larger than 80 football fields, Pando is not just a tree but an entire phenomenon. Its 47,000 ...
Scientists have sequenced the genome of a couple dozen shoots of Pando and confirmed the main swath really is a clone, with very closely related but not quite identical trees surrounding Pando proper.
Pando, a remarkable clonal colony of quaking aspens (Populus tremuloides) in Utah’s Fishlake National Forest, is more than simply a single tree. Pando, which is said to be about 80,000 years old ...
Pando is a quaking aspen tree found in Utah's Fishlake National Forest in Sevier County. Looking at pictures of it, you'd be forgiven for wondering which one among the hundreds of trunks is that ...
It used to be the oldest tree in the region until scientists discovered another Great Basin bristlecone pine nearby that was over 5,000 years old. The Pando is a group of interconnected quaking ...
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 ...