Some organisms can outlive humans by hundreds or even thousands of years, and the contender for Earth's oldest living thing ...

The boundaries of different clones stand out most clearly in the early spring when flowering ... Aspen occur as males and females separately (dioecious), unlike the majority of tree species ...

An interesting attribute of aspen is that it has two methods of reproduction. It is a ‘dioecious’ species, meaning that male and female flowers occur on separate trees – most of our trees ...