This is so cool!!!

[gaeln9796]

FROM: Wikipedia:
Pando (Latin for "I spread"), also known as The Trembling Giant,^[1][2] is a clonal colony of a single male Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides) determined to be a single living organism by identical genetic markers^[3] and one massive underground root system. The plant is estimated to weigh collectively 6,000,000 kg (6,600 short tons),^[4] making it the heaviest known organism.^[5] The root system of Pando, at an estimated 80,000 years old, is among the oldest known living organisms.^[6]

Pando is located in the Fishlake National Forest, near Fish Lake at the western edge of the Colorado Plateau in South-central Utah.

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[rainbow1907.livejournal.com]

Wow! That's absolutely awesome! I never knew something like that is even possible :)

[gaeln.livejournal.com]

Right? How is it I can live relatively close to something like this and not know. Glad you are impressed as I am :)

[penelopes-web.livejournal.com]

That is really cool. I showed Taylor and her first response was - I want to go see it...add one more to the summer get-away list - LOL!
Thank you for sharing this!
:))

[gaeln.livejournal.com]

My response was pretty much the same as Taylor's, I've been through Utah several times and never managed to even know this was there :D I hope when you go, you guys have a great time :)

[spike7451.livejournal.com]

Most definitely very cool. :D

[gaeln.livejournal.com]

IKR? Most definitely will have to visit someday :)

[ashmedai.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is amazing! :)

[gaeln.livejournal.com]

Isn't it? And having been through Utah several times, I feel somehow deprived at not have experienced this. Hopefully one day :)

[ashmedai.livejournal.com]

I'd love to see that, that's just mind-boggling. I never knew such an organism existed.