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Pando: The world's largest tree and heaviest living organismPando 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 ...
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Earth's Oldest Living Organism May Not Be What You ThinkFor example, all of the trees that make up a clonal colony such as Pando grow their flowers and shed their leaves at the same time each year. The original stem of Pando sprouted during the last ...
Fishlake National Forest's Pando, touted as the world's largest tree, is at the center of a new online documentary, as ...
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 ...
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