Admirers frequently note the striking white bark of quaking aspen. This bark lives and carries out photosynthesis, attributes that make it unique among North American trees and likely contribute ...

It looks like a forest of aspen trees but is actually a single ... For example, all of the trees that make up a clonal colony such as Pando grow their flowers and shed their leaves at the same ...

But not all trees follow that formula ... The most famous example of a clonal grove is Pando, a grove of quaking aspen in Utah's Fishlake National Forest. Its name means "I spread" in Latin ...