I was up in the White Mountains this weekend, walking out to my car in the AMC’s Highland Center parking lot after a hike, and there between the buildings and the cars was a gorgeous aspen tree ...

I’m pretty sure this was a quaking aspen (Populus ... warms up in the spring before photosynthesis can begin. But that greenish trunk means this isn’t quite true for some trees.

Populus tremuloides, the quaking aspen ... of tree species, which support both male and female reproductive parts on each individual (monoecious or hermaphroditic). In early spring, an aspen ...

The quaking aspen tree grows quickly to between 20 and 50 ... The spectacular white flowers fill the bare branches in spring before the leaves appear, the leaves turn fiery colors in fall, and ...

Aspen is invariably the last tree to get its new leaves in spring, with them often not opening ... In North America, the closely related quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) is found in much ...

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 ...

Standing in the small open meadow, deep in the north woods my group of photographers and I were enjoying the early morning calmness. Sunlight streamed through the branches of black ash and quaking ...

Standing in the small open meadow, deep in the North Woods, a group of photographers and I were enjoying the early morning calmness. Sunlight streamed through the branches of black ash and quaking ...