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Technically and aesthetically, they have really nice properties,” Penadés says of the dense hunks, many of them more than 100 ...

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Pando is an aspen clone that originated from a single seed and spreads by sending up new shoots from the expanding root system. “Pando is believed to be the largest, most dense organism ever found at ...

Wildlife is eating Earth’s largest and oldest organism, the Pando aspen tree in Fishlack National Forest in Utah. Credits: Public Domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Wildlife is eating alive Earth’s ...

Pando, an extraordinary organism residing in Utah, quietly stands out among the myriad of living beings that inhabit our planet, captivating scientists and nature enthusiasts alike. This remarkable ...

Beneath the ground, too, the health of the root system is depleting. ‘All of Pando’s energy is stored in the root system underground,’ Rogers explains. ‘Each leaf is like a solar panel feeding energy ...

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.

One very big tree Pando — whose name means ‘I spread’ in Latin — consists of some 47,000 stems that cover an area of 42.6 hectares in Utah’s Fishlake National Forest.

Named Pando, the tree is a quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) with around 47,000 stems connected by a root system that sprawls about 43 hectares in Utah’s Fishlake National Forest.