One especially large stand in Utah, known as "Pando" after the ... and heat have stressed the trees. During drought, aspen close off microscopic openings in their leaves, a survival measure ...

but as a seemingly ordinary grove of trees. This is Pando, a massive quaking aspen colony spanning over 106 acres, and it ...

Its name is Pando. Covering 106 acres of Utah's Fishlake National Forest with branches that look like the trunks of 40,000 individual aspen trees, it is the world's largest living organism.

Pando already attracts attention ... collected around 500 pieces of root, leaf, and bark from its trees, as well as specimens from other, unrelated aspen, and sequenced their DNA.

Populus tremuloides, the quaking aspen of the North ... to the ‘fixed’ leaves was, on average, about 27% higher in the stabilized members of the pairs. This tree species seems to almost ...