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 ...

In the Wasatch Mountains of the western US on the slopes above a spring-fed lake, there dwells a single giant organism that provides an entire ecosystem on which plants and animals have relied for ...

Within Pando, fascinating interactions take place. Bees and butterflies fly among the wildflowers, pollinating plants that thrive under the canopy. Mushrooms and fungi flourish in the shaded ...