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Pando (from Latin pando 'I spread') [1] is the world's largest tree, a quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) located in Sevier County, Utah, United States, in the Fishlake National Forest. A male clonal organism , Pando has an estimated 47,000 stems (ramets) that appear to be individual trees, but are connected by a root system that spans 42.8 ha ...
In Minas Gerais, it flowers from May to July [6] and is in fruit from November to February. [5] Ripe fruit are about the size of large cherry, and yellowish/orange in color, but can also include a blush towards the tip. Palms cultivated around the world under the name Butia capitata are actually almost all B. odorata.
Pando, a colony of quaking aspen, is one of the oldest-known clonal trees. Recent estimates of its age range up to 14,000 years old, and 18,000 years by the latest (2024) estimate. [1] It is located in Utah, United States. This is a list of the oldest-known trees, as reported in reliable sources. Definitions of what constitutes an individual ...
Butia odorata, also known as the South American jelly palm, [3] jelly palm, [3] [4] or pindo palm, [3] is a Butia palm native to southernmost Brazil and Uruguay. [2] This slow-growing palm grows up to 10m, although it is often less tall.
Many plants are well known for natural cloning ability, including blueberry plants, Hazel trees, the Pando trees, [10] [11] the Kentucky coffeetree, Myrica, and the American sweetgum. It also occurs accidentally in the case of identical twins, which are formed when a fertilized egg splits, creating two or more embryos that carry identical DNA.
Apostolic Vicariate of Pando, of the Roman Catholic church, located in Riberalta, Bolivia; Pando (application), a proprietary peer-to-peer file-sharing computer program, based on the BitTorrent protocol; Pando Health an app used in the British NHS; Pando (tree), an aspen tree colony in Utah which is several thousand years old
The flowers are small and often inconspicuous, irregular, and bisexual, usually with an outer three free sepals and an inner series of three petaloid-like segments, tube-like in appearance. The fruit is either fleshy or a loculicidal capsule . [ 4 ]
Caryophyllaceae, commonly called the pink family or carnation family, is a family of flowering plants.It is included in the dicotyledon order Caryophyllales in the APG III system, alongside 33 other families, including Amaranthaceae, Cactaceae, and Polygonaceae. [1]