The Pando aspen in Utah looks like a forest of 47,000 separate trees spread across 106 acres, but every trunk shares a single root system and identical DNA, making it one organism weighing roughly 6,000 tonnes and at least 16,000 years old

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Pando, a quaking aspen clone in Utah's Fishlake National Forest, spreads across 106 acres as roughly 47,000 genetically identical trunks connected by a single root system weighing 6,000 tonnes — the heaviest known organism on Earth, and possibly among the oldest. The post The Pando aspen in Utah looks like a forest of 47,000 separate trees spread across 106 acres, but every trunk shares a single root system and identical DNA, making it one organism weighing roughly 6,000 tonnes and at least 16,000 years old appeared first on Space Daily .