Quaking aspen can be found from Alaska to Mexico and ... termed ramets, each with its own trunk, branches, leaves and a shared root system (Figure 2). All of these structures arose from a single ...

The quaking aspen is the most widespread species of tree ... which bursts through the soil and becomes a trunk from which new branches and leaves grow. From the surface, the stem appears to ...

with each trunk genetically identical to the others. The most famous example of a clonal grove is Pando, a grove of quaking aspen in Utah's Fishlake National Forest. Its name means "I spread" in ...

Careful examination of an aspen trunk reveals that it is slightly green ... In North America, the closely related quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) is found in much of Canada and the northern ...