Fishlake National Forest's Pando, touted as the world's largest tree, is at the center of a new online documentary, as scientists consider the organism's future and unique nature.
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 ...
Pando, Latin for ‘I spread,’ appears to be a forest but is actually one massive tree. Weighing 13 million pounds, Pando is one of the world’s largest living organisms. It has thrived in Utah ...
Although the Pando is safeguarded from logging, its existence is threatened by the devastating combination of overgrazing animals and disease. The youngest trees are being decimated as deer and ...
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.
Every tree in Pando is genetically identical, sharing DNA from a root system that has been growing and regenerating for tens of thousands of years beneath the forest floor. Named after the Latin ...
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 ...
The Pando is a colony of cloned aspen trees that sprawls across 106 acres between Las Vegas, Nevada and Salt Lake City, Utah in the US. The genetically identical white-barked trees' roots are ...