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a forest pretending to be many trees, secretly one immortal organism
means A slender, pale-barked deciduous tree of the poplar family whose flattened leaf-stalks make its leaves tremble in the slightest breeze.
from From Old English æspe (later æspen as an adjective, 'made of aspen'), with relatives across the Germanic languages — Dutch esp, German Espe — and likely cousins further afield in Baltic and Slavic words for the same trembling tree. The adjective form 'aspen' eventually swallowed the noun, so today the wood's name is really 'aspen-ish' grown into a tree.
- clonal colony
- entire groves share one root system
- oldest known
- Utah's Pando weighs 6,000 tons
- self-defense
- bark contains aspirin-like painkiller compounds
- quaking trick
- flat stems make leaves flutter in any breeze
- fire survivor
- roots resprout fast after wildfires raze them
for instance
quaking aspen tree — populus tremuloides, native to north america, leaves flutter in slightest breeze due to flattened petioles