At first glance, Pando looks like any other forest consisting of individual trees. But in 2008, scientists confirmed that these 40,000 or so towering trunks are actually genetically identical ...

Pando — Latin for "I spread" — is the largest known tree on Earth and the heaviest living organism on record. The colony extends over 106 acres (43 hectares) and weighs an estimated 6,500 tons ...

To the untrained eye, Pando resembles a forest made up of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) trees.However, it's actually a single clone comprising approximately 40,000 genetically identical ...

What looks like 47,000 separate trees spread out over 106 acres in Utah are actually all offshoots from a single, massive Aspen tree root. It’s known as Pando and it is believed to be the ...

One very big tree. Pando — whose name means ‘I spread’ in Latin — consists of some 47,000 stems that cover an area of 42.6 hectares in Utah’s Fishlake National Forest.

For this story, we’re taking a trip to south central Utah and into the Fishlake National Forest to visit the largest tree on earth, an aspen named Pando. The strange thing about Pando is that it doesn ...

New tree saplings growing in the Pando forest in Utah are being eaten by deer and elk, which hinders it from growing.

Its name is Pando. Covering 106 acres of Utah's Fishlake National Forest with branches that look like the trunks of 40,000 individual aspen trees, it is the world's largest living organism.

Pando — Latin for "I spread" — is the largest known tree on Earth and the heaviest living organism on record. The colony extends over 106 acres (43 hectares) and weighs an estimated 6,500 tons ...