A collection of over 40,000 trees in rural Utah is the world’s largest single organism, having all descended from a single seedling. But that’s not all: According to a team of researchers, the ...
Standing in the Pando aspen grove puts you in the belly of a 13-million-pound beast. While it may look like an ordinary forest, each tree is actually a branch attached to one of the oldest and largest ...
The largest known organism on Earth is a 106-acre colony of aspens named Pando. Linked by a single root system, Pando consists of tens of thousands of genetically identical trees, cloned from a sprout ...
A Utah State University ecologist’s research with Ogden High School students on the “Pando clone” will be featured on Utah’s educational TV network on Monday and later air nationally on PBS. Paul ...
Pando, Latin for ‘I spread,’ appears to be a forest but is actually one massive tree. Weighing 13 million pounds, Pando is one of the world’s largest living organisms. It has thrived in Utah’s ...