Have you ever wondered what the largest living organism on Earth is? Well, you might be surprised to learn that it's not a giant blue whale or a sequoia tree; it's a fungus!
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.