Pando 🙌🏼
Pando is a tree and an Aspen (a plant family). Pando is from Latin meaning “I Spread.” It is also called trembling giant because of its trembling leaves.
Pando is a colony of male quaking Aspens. It has been discovered it exist as a single living organism called clone.
The colony has about 40,000 stems (trunk). Individual stems live for about a century and die but is replaced by a young shoot from the underground root.
Aspens generally grow in cold regions of the world. As a result, Pando lives in Utah, USA covering a land area of 108 acres and weighing up to 6 million kilograms.
Pando has a very large underground root system which connects the trunks to form a single organism. According to scientists, Pando is at most 14, 000 years 🙀.
Pando is not just big, it is useful in the ecosystem. Some animals graze it but they’re being regulated and factors like urban expansion is being watched to preserve the integrity of Pando.
Pando seedlings survive in areas that been affected by wildfire...
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