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Author: bighairymike   😊 😞
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Subject: The Worlds Largest Organism
Date: 03/18/2023 9:45 PM
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is being slowly eaten

https://www.sciencealert.com/worlds-largest-organi...

In the Wasatch Mountains of the western US on the slopes above a spring-fed lake, there dwells a single giant organism that provides an entire ecosystem on which plants and animals have relied for thousands of years.

Found in my home state of Utah, "Pando" is a 106-acre stand of quaking aspen clones.

Although it looks like a woodland of individual trees with striking white bark and small leaves that flutter in the slightest breeze, Pando (Latin for "I spread") is actually 47,000 genetically identical stems that arise from an interconnected root network.

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