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The world's largest living organism that's being slowly eaten alive
The Pando is a 106-acre colony of cloned aspen trees between Las Vegas, Nevada, and Salt Lake City, Utah, in the US-but it's being eaten alive.
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Why Scotland's native aspen trees tremble – and have good reason to do so
Aspen has distinctive, almost-circular leaves with flattened petioles or stems. This flattening causes the leaves to tremble or flutter in the slightest breeze, thereby giving the tree one of its ...
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Case Study: The Glorious, Golden, and Gigantic Quaking Aspen
The ability of aspen to produce whole stands of "trees" vegetatively provides yet ... Why do quaking aspen leaves quake and tremble? The leaves of this species quake, shake and tremble in the ...