These suckers are technically known as ramets and, if they survive without being browsed, they grow to become mature trees in their own right. In Scotland today, most aspen reproduction occurs by ...
As part of our Scotland’s Wonderful Wildlife series, Alan Watson Featherstone reveals the many threats faced by Scotland native aspen trees – a species that created the world oldest and largest living ...
The new sprout is a clone of the original tree, and many cloned aspen trees can grow from the same root system. Aspen clones are some of the largest organisms on the planet. A single aspen ...