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In Utah, a forest that looks like many trees is actually one giant aspen clone. Called Pando, its 47,000 stems share one underground root system. It covers 43 hectares and may weigh 6,000 tons, making it a candidate for Earth’s heaviest organism.
Bamboo is not a tree but a grass — a cousin of rice. Depending on species, it flowers only once every few decades to 120 years, then dies. Since all stems in a bamboo grove grow from a single root system, when one flowers, the entire grove dies together.
Metasequoia was known only from fossils over 150 million years old until living specimens were confirmed in China in 1946. Only about 4,000 trees remained at the time, and every metasequoia in the world today descends from them.
The almendro tree in Central American rainforests evolved to attract lightning. 68% more likely to be struck than neighbors, each strike kills an average of 9.2 surrounding trees by electrocution, boosting the almendro's reproduction up to 14-fold.