the 106-acre quaking aspen forest in Utah whose forty thousand or so trees share a common root system, are essentially clones of one another, and constitute a single organism larger than any other on Earth and about eighty thousand years old. Or with the underground mycorrhizal networks sometimes called the wood wide web that connect trees to one another in forests, circulating nutrients and information that make some forests a communicating community of not-so-individual trees.
the 106-acre quaking aspen forest in Utah whose forty thousand or so trees share a common root system, are essentially clones of one another, and constitute a single organism larger than any other on Earth and about eighty thousand years old. Or with the underground mycorrhizal networks sometimes called the wood wide web that connect trees to one another in forests, circulating nutrients and information that make some forests a communicating community of not-so-individual trees.
