Trees are the poems the Earth writes upon the sky.” In Botetourt County, one particular tree stands closer to the sky than ...

Pando is the world's largest tree. Its name means "I spread" in Latin, and it does indeed spread: The organism has given rise ...

Among them, one specimen reigns supreme, holding the title of the largest living tree on Earth. Behold General Sherman, the biggest tree the world has ever seen. The General Sherman tree is ...

Pando is a giant aspen clone in central Utah that has been regrowing parts of itself for up to 80,000 years — but new threats mean the plant is now in decline.

With its remarkable size and age, Pando dwarfs its fellow inhabitants, holding the potential to be not only the oldest living ...

DNA analysis suggests Pando, a quaking aspen in Utah with thousands of stems connected by their roots, is between 16,000 and 81,000 years old ...

A collection of over 40,000 trees in rural Utah is the world’s largest single organism, having all descended from a single ...

A slice of giant sequoia paradise containing the fifth largest tree has been privately owned ... resilience of a forest unlike any other on Earth — with giant sequoia trees that are thousands ...

This story appears in the December 2012 issue of National Geographic magazine. On a gentle slope above a trail junction in Sequoia National Park, about 7,000 feet above sea level in the southern ...

It’s also the largest known pine tree in the world ... Using programs like Google Earth, he can digitally “fly” over the maps, making notes of any outlying colors that may indicate ...