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 ...

Quaking aspen can be found from Alaska to Mexico and ... branches, leaves and a shared root system (Figure 2). All of these structures arose from a single aspen seed, often in the very distant ...

Some organisms can outlive humans by hundreds or even thousands of years, and the contender for Earth's oldest living thing ...

With life coursing through its interconnected roots and stems ... Pando is the most extensive known clonal colony of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), originating from a single seedling.

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 ...