[AlotOfReading]

I'm not dismissing that Pando is old or interesting. I'm saying that clonal reproduction is not especially uncommon in the plant kingdom and that we typically don't consider the resulting plants part of the same collective organism.

The same type of vegetative reproduction is happening every time a potato or garlic clove is planted, for example. Asparagus is an even closer analogy to Pando.

[Mistletoe]

The roots of Pando are all connected though and a potato plant from a piece definitely isn’t.

> Generally speaking, yes. Each of Pando's branches is connected to the others through a shared root system.