But the heaviest organism, and the most massive organism, is a tree, or rather a giant colony of quaking aspen tree stems which has been growing across a hillside in the west of America for ...

I’m pretty sure this was a quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) or as many of us New Englanders know them, a quaking poplar. When I think of a "cheery" tree, I think of quaking aspens.

Pando is a quaking aspen tree found in Utah's Fishlake National ... though the research hasn't yet been peer-reviewed. The tree colony's name means "I spread" in Latin. It is estimated to weigh ...

Pando, a massive aspen colony in Utah, is the largest living organism on Earth. It covers over 100 acres and weighs about 6,000 tons. All the trees in Pando are genetically identical and share a ...

This remarkable colony of quaking aspen trees (Populus tremuloides) stretches across 106 acres, and is connected by an extensive underground root system that forms a single, unified organism rather ...

DNA samples from one of the world’s largest and oldest plants — a quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) in Utah called Pando — have helped researchers to determine its age and revealed ...

In Utah an aspen colony 40,000 strong has developed from one quaking aspen. In recruitment strategies, seed dispersal is triggered by fire instead of by natural maturation. This process is known ...

Answer: Popple (or poplar) are common names for aspen trees because their genus is populus, but many trees are in that genus. In Minnesota we have two native aspens — quaking aspen (populus ...

Quaking aspen trees — they’re a “symbol of the ... “A stand of aspen trees is actually one giant organism, a large clonal colony which has reproduced from a single seed and spread by ...

Quaking aspen is one of the most widely distributed species in North America, and it is the primary land cover in much of the Rocky Mountains. Many of its traits make it an adaptable species.