The leaves of disease-resistant Prairie Gold quaking aspen turn a beautiful golden-yellow in autumn. Once upon a time I lived in the mountains of central New Mexico. A favorite autumn adventure ...

This is our celebrated tree of fall, the quaking aspen so named for those leaves that flicker in the breeze, twinkle in the sun and stir our souls. Maybe you didn't know that about the name.

When I think of a "cheery" tree, I think of quaking aspens. Why cheery you might ask? While there are no leaves this time of year, find one in the spring and shake a branch… the leaves tremble ...

The quaking aspen leaf is roundish and somewhat heart-shaped, with a fine-toothed edge that is barely perceptible. The leaves are 1-3 inches long. In contrast, ...

Aspen leaves turn golden yellow, orange and red in the fall, and they account for 20% of the state's forests, so Coloradans can expect to see plenty of those colors as fall foliage peaks this season.

The sound of quaking aspen leaves rustling in the wind. The way the sunlight falls through conifer branches. The sound of the river over smooth stones. These are just some of the things one might ...

DNA analysis suggests Pando, a quaking aspen in Utah with thousands of stems connected by their roots, is between 16,000 and 81,000 years old. Close. Advertisement. Skip to content. Sign in.

In the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, a remarkable organism known as Pando stands as the largest living organism on Earth by mass. This colossal stand of genetically identical quaking aspen trees ...

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 ...

Pando, a quaking aspen and one of the world's oldest and largest organisms. Photo: J Zapell / Wikimedia Commons A collection of over 40,000 trees in rural Utah is the world’s largest single ...