I’m pretty sure this was a quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) or as many of us New Englanders know them, a quaking poplar. When I think of a "cheery" tree, I think of quaking aspens.

In Minnesota we have two native aspens — quaking aspen (populus tremuloides) and bigtooth aspen (populus grandidentata).

Chicago-based Studio Gang, which has projects around the world, is the hotel’s architect. The hotel’s name, Populus, comes from the scientific name for quaking aspen: Populus tremuloides.

Pando is an ancient quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) with 47,000 genetically identical stems, or tree trunks, connected to a vast underground root system. Each stem is a clone of the one ...

Turns out, quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) is actually the most widely distributed tree species in North America. It’s native to all but a few of the 49 continental states, the exceptions ...

The aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) is the most widely distributed tree species in North America, ranging from Alaska to Newfoundland and down the Rocky Mountains to Mexico. Utah and Colorado, in ...

Named Pando, the tree is a quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) with around 47,000 stems connected by a root system that sprawls about 43 hectares in Utah’s Fishlake National Forest.

That’s the reputation of quaking aspen, populus tremuloides. It’s the reputation born by a pair of University of Colorado-Boulder professors who, in the 1990s, got the idea to argue populus ...

We can now hear one of the largest and most ancient living organisms on Earth whisper with the tremble of a million leaves echoing through its roots. The forest made of a single tree known as Pando ...

Surely, the quaking aspen, populus tremuloides, was the largest. Surely, the cloning creature was being ignored here — the single root system accounting for several trees.

The hotel’s moniker comes from the scientific name for the quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides), the native tree that served as muse for the project.

The Populus tremuloides got the name “quaking aspen” because of the way its leaves flutter in the wind, according to the Colorado Native Plant Society.