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Populus tremuloides Is the name of the tree... look for it ;) Giant Redwoods are a joke against it.
Aspen Clone: World's Heaviest Living Organism?
An aspen clone in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah is composed of 47,000 stems of genetically identical aspen trees (), with a total weight of 6 million kilograms (6,500 tons). Since the aspen is a dioecious species (with separate male and female individuals in the population), this monstrous clone is the same sex, in this case all males. The clone has developed asexually by suckering, where new adventitious stems arise from a gigantic spreading root system. Suckering is a common method of asexual reproduction in the willow family (Salicaceae), which includes cottonwoods (Populus), willows (Salix) and aspen. The above-ground stems appear to be separate trees, but they all arose from a genetically identical root system. Like the creosote bush clones in the White Mountains of California, it is quite likely that some of the root systems have broken away, so that some of the trees are no longer directly connected to the clone, but they still share a common genome.
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