Pando, also known as The Trembling Giant, is a clonal colony of a single quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) determined to be a single living organism by identical
genetic markers and assumed to have one massive underground root system.
The plant is estimated to weigh collectively 6,000,000 kg (6,600 short
tons). The root system of Pando, at an estimated 80,000 years old, is
among the oldest known living organisms. Pando is located 1 mile
southwest of Fish Lake on Utah’s Route 25, in the Fremont River Ranger
District of the Fishlake National Forest, at the western edge of the
Colorado Plateau in South-Central Utah,
Christian Grey put his thumb in my mouth. And then the other one. And then two more. ”Wider,” he said as he put in one more. “I bet you’ve never had this many thumbs in your mouth.” I hadn’t.
