Pando is an ancient quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides ... to 40 blue whales or three times the world's largest single-stem tree — California's General Sherman giant sequoia (Sequoiadendron ...

But not all trees follow that formula. Some form what are called clonal groves: swaths of forest connected underground by a single network ... a grove of quaking aspen in Utah's Fishlake National ...

Young aspens often don't survive because of factors such as grazing elk, according to a study by Northern Arizona University researchers.

JT Thomas It's a relentlessly sunny day in the Rocky Mountains, and here at 9,000 feet, on the Grand Mesa in western Colorado, the aspen trees should be casting a shadow. But something is wrong in ...

A single clone may exhibit multiple colors ... 2008). The ability of aspen to produce whole stands of "trees" vegetatively provides yet another key element in explaining the species’ ability ...