Learn how to identify the aspen tree in the forest, ... damage-prone bark is light green and smooth with bands of warty ... It has nearly 50,000 stems growing out of a single root system, ...

This is our celebrated tree of fall, the quaking aspen so named for those leaves that flicker in the breeze, twinkle in the sun and stir our souls. Maybe you didn't know that about the name.

But in reality, it's all one tree connected by a single root system. In a sense, Pando "redefines trees," says Lance Oditt, who directs the nonprofit Friends of Pando.

CRESTED BUTTE, Colo. — Aspen trees are the celebrities of a Colorado fall day. Think about it. People line the roads to take pictures with them. Instagram feeds from all over the state feature ...

The Kebler Pass aspen stand covers the equivalent of just over 100 football fields, with over 47,000 aspen trees, populus tremuloides, connected by a single, subterranean root system called a rhizome.

A recent DNA analysis of hundreds of tree samples suggested Pando is between 16,000 and 80,000 years old, making it one of the oldest living organisms in the world — although that research ...

In Scotland today, most aspen reproduction occurs by this method, creating stands of genetically identical trees connected by their shared root systems, forming a single multi-stemmed organism.