While it is not one of the tallest, Pando is the world's largest tree and one of the oldest living organisms, which is one of the reasons it is so fascinating and worth seeing in person. The clonal ...

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 ...

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 ...

The most famous example of a clonal grove is Pando, a grove of quaking aspen in Utah's Fishlake National Forest. Its name means "I spread" in Latin, and for good reason. Pando is among the largest ...

Suppression of natural predators in Pando forest in Utah, for example, has allowed deer and elk to run riot, feasting on the ancient aspen colony and slowly killing it. Port and Starboard photographed ...