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Sunlight highlights aspen trees, Populus tremuloides, as their colors turn golden in the autumn. "Quaking aspen" is Colorado's signature tree in the high altitude of the San Juan mountains near Silverton. Aspens grow in large clonal colonies, derived from a single seedling. They spread by root suckers and new starts may pop up 100–130 ft from the parent tree. Each tree may live for 40–150 years, but the root system of the colony can be thousands of years old sending up new trunks as the older trees die off above ground.
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- MELISSA FARLOW
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- 3264x4944 / 4.0MB
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aerial view, aerial views, aspen trees, autumn, autumn foliage, autumn views, color image, colorado, contrasts, cosmic and atmospheric phenomena, day, fall, foliage, landscapes, light vs. dark, natural beauty, natural forces and phenomena, natural pattern, nature, no people, north america, outdoors, photography, plants, poplar trees, rocky mountain states, scenics, season, silverton, sunlight, trees, treetops, united states, usa
- Contained in galleries
- The Big Open_Public Lands_National Geographic magazine and book 8/2001
