DNA samples from one of the world’s largest and oldest plants — a quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) in Utah called Pando — have helped researchers to determine its age and revealed ...

This enables the tree to absorb a small amount of the sun ... In North America, the closely related quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) is found in much of Canada and the northern USA.

With its remarkable size and age, Pando dwarfs its fellow inhabitants, holding the potential to be not only the oldest living ...

Populus tremuloides, the quaking aspen of the North American continent, stands as one of the most easily recognized, most beautiful and most admired of all tree species. In order to help ...

Here’s how it works. Why it's incredible: Pando looks like a forest, but it's actually one giant tree. Pando is an ancient quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) with 47,000 genetically ...

Pando, a quaking aspen in Utah, is between 16,000 and 81,000 years old. New threats mean the world's largest tree is now in ...

This is Pando, "the Trembling Giant," an astonishing clonal colony of quaking aspen trees located in Utah's Fishlake National ...

Pando is the world's largest tree. Its name means "I spread" in Latin, and it does indeed spread: The organism has given rise ...

A collection of over 40,000 trees in rural Utah is the world’s largest single organism, having all descended from a single ...

Pando is a giant aspen clone in central Utah that has been regrowing parts of itself for up to 80,000 years — but new threats ...

DNA analysis suggests Pando, a quaking aspen in Utah with thousands of stems connected by their roots, is between 16,000 and 81,000 years old ...