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Pando: Earth’s Oldest, Hugest Organism Is Trees!
42 minutes Posted Nov 13, 2018 at 6:27 am.
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In Utah, lives a 106-acre stand of Quaking Aspen trees that are all genetically identical because they are all growing from the same massive root system. It’s Pando, the most massive, and almost certainly oldest (by far) organism on Earth.

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