Spanning 106 acres in the United States, between Las Vegas, Nevada, and Salt Lake City, Utah, this enormous entity is a genetically identical, cloned aspen tree ... a wave of European settlers ...

those trees where the wood has been weakened by the aspen bracket fungus. Another species that takes advantage of aspen’s soft wood is the European beaver (Castor fiber), recently restored to ...

along with its very similar sister species of European and Asian distribution — the Eurasian aspen (Populus tremula) — these two species occupy the broadest range of any tree species in the world.