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Pando (tree) , also known as the Trembling Giant, is a clonal colony of a single male quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides) determined to be a single living organism by identical genetic markers and assumed to have one massive underground root system.

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Roots are important when it comes to the erosion of soil because they keep everything in tact. Roots hold down the soil so that it can't be eroded. They act as a support system or safe blanket for soil.

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Tuberous Root:
a thick fleshy storage root (as of a dahlia) that is like a tuber but lacks buds or scale leaves

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Buttress Root:
large roots on all sides of a shallowly rooted tree. Typically, they are found in nutrient-poor rainforest soils and do not penetrate to deeper layers

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Cypress Knee:
distinctive structure forming above the roots of a cypress tree of any of various species of the subfamily Taxodioideae

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Aerial Root:
develops from a location on a plant above the surface of the earth or water, as from a stem.

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Prop Root:
An aerial root that arises from a stem or trunk

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Fibrous Root and Taproot

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1. Helps anchor the plant into the ground and support it.
2. Absorbs water and nutrients
3. Holds and stores food and nutrients for the plant