Pando: The 80,000-Year-Old Forest That's Actually One Tree | World's Largest Organism

Discover Pando, the 106-acre ancient aspen forest that's actually a single tree! 🌳

Did you know the world's largest and oldest known organism is a tree that covers 106 acres? Meet Pando, the 6,000-ton quaking aspen clone in Utah's Fishlake National Forest.

This 80,000-year-old marvel consists of 47,000 genetically identical stems connected by a massive root system. Explore how this natural wonder has survived millennia and why it's now facing new threats.

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[LuxLavage]

How do they know that it’s all rooted to one source without taking up the whole source itself?

[VineyardGHS]

Thanks for distorting the facts and not getting any of this right. The facts are Aspen trees are built backwards from normal trees. What you see up top is actually the root system of the plant and what's underground is one large organism so in other words all Aspen forests are just one tree