#quakingaspen β Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #quakingaspen, aggregated by home.social.
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ππ»ββοΈ TIL: π²π #Sound artist Jeff Rice lowered a #hydrophone into #Pando, a single 12,000-year-old quaking aspen in #Utah that cloned itself into 47,000 stems over 100 acres, and recorded the rumble of a million #leaves trembling in a #thunderstorm, transmitted through its connected root system.
π https://www.sciencealert.com/haunting-sounds-of-the-worlds-largest-living-thing-recorded
#quakingaspen #trees #plants #science #nature #ecology #conservation #audio #organisms #ancient
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ππ»ββοΈ TIL: π²π #Sound artist Jeff Rice lowered a #hydrophone into #Pando, a single 12,000-year-old quaking aspen in #Utah that cloned itself into 47,000 stems over 100 acres, and recorded the rumble of a million #leaves trembling in a #thunderstorm, transmitted through its connected root system.
π https://www.sciencealert.com/haunting-sounds-of-the-worlds-largest-living-thing-recorded
#quakingaspen #trees #plants #science #nature #ecology #conservation #audio #organisms #ancient
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Pando β the world's largest tree
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_%28tree%29
βPando occupies 108 acres (43.6 ha) and is estimated to weigh collectively 6,000 tonnes (6,000,000 kg), making it the heaviest known organism. The root system of Pando is estimated to be up to several thousand years old, placing Pando among the oldest known living organisms.β
( #aspen #clonalColony #genet #pando #populusTremuloides #quakingAspen)
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Pando β the world's largest tree
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pando_%28tree%29
βPando occupies 108 acres (43.6 ha) and is estimated to weigh collectively 6,000 tonnes (6,000,000 kg), making it the heaviest known organism. The root system of Pando is estimated to be up to several thousand years old, placing Pando among the oldest known living organisms.β
( #aspen #clonalColony #genet #pando #populusTremuloides #quakingAspen)
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