Your aspens are likely infested with an insect called Oystershell Scale. If you examine each 1/8” “pimple” closely, you’ll ...

In the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, a remarkable organism known as Pando stands as the largest living organism on Earth by mass ...

In the Wasatch Mountains of the western US on the slopes above a spring-fed lake, there dwells a single giant organism that ...

Aspen trees go by several different names: trembling aspen, golden aspen, quiver-leaf aspen ... There is one famous clone in Utah, known as Pando, that's recognized as the largest living entity ...

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 ...

“Although no scientific studies have focused specifically on Pando, aspen stands have been struggling with climate change-related pressures, such as reduced water supply and warmer weather earlier in ...

The "Pando" (Latin for "I spread) is a 106-acre colony of cloned aspen trees ... which make it harder for trees to form new leaves and lead to coverage decline. Temperatures in summertime have ...

A single aspen clone, known as the “Pando” clone ... fall colors of the aspen trees. Discover Flagstaff, the city’s tourism bureau, displays a “Leaf-ometer” on its website when the ...

Pando, a quaking aspen and one of the world's oldest ... The team sampled a range of tree tissues including leaves, roots, and bark, and sorted somatic mutations of the clone from germline mutations.

This remarkable colony of quaking aspen trees (Populus tremuloides ... To discern Pando’s true age more accurately, the research team meticulously collected around 500 samples, including root, leaf, ...

A close-up of one of the aspen trees that make up Pando. Image: Lance Oditt/Friends of Pando/Studio ... is stored in the root system underground,’ Rogers explains. ‘Each leaf is like a solar panel ...