Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak, is home to an extraordinary plant found nowhere else on Earth: the giant groundsels ...

In tribute to the world’s 3.04 trillion trees ... as a single seed and spreads (pando is Latin for “I spread”) by sending up shoots from its expanding root system. Each trunk is genetically ...

Covering a tree's roots above ground can limit the tree's access to oxygen and moisture which helps them grow and stay healthy. Avoid cutting, trimming, or removing tree roots because it can make ...

“What we think of as a tree is really kind of a branch,” Rogers said. “The part sticking above ground is only a small part of this larger organism, which is this vastly connected root system.” Pando’s ...

Pando is not just one of the world’s oldest trees. More fascinatingly, it’s considered as the largest tree and one of the largest living organisms on the planet. The quaking aspen tree grove was ...

using them to distinguish between stems originating from a single root system and unrelated trees nearby. Decades later, other scientists sampled DNA from 209 stems across Pando. They showed ...

Pando is a 106-acre forest of cloned aspen trees originating from a single seed that utilizes one massive root system. This incredible colony of over 40,000 trees is considered a single organism, ...

To approximate the age of the clone, the research team genetically sequenced over 500 samples from Pando and its neighbors. The team sampled a range of tree tissues including leaves, roots ...

but it also boasts a unique genetic identity shared by all its individual parts that are linked together through one vast network of roots. This form of asexual reproduction makes Pando a clonal ...

To understand Pando’s changing demography, it’s important to first understand its reproductive strategy. ‘Aspen is different from most other trees – their root systems are completely interconnected, ...

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 ...

they continually regenerate new trees from the root system, which kind of lives forever." What makes Pando particularly unique is its genetic makeup. The tree is triploid, meaning its cells ...