lichen

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On the salvaged tiles alone, you can find salt efflorescence, water stains, fretting, lichen, smears of soot, scratches and gashes.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2025

This is the case of the wolf lichen -- threatened throughout Europe -- , which now finds refuge in the oldest trees in the high mountains of the Pyrenees.

From Science Daily • Apr. 2, 2024

The eyes of reindeer shine blue in winter, an adaptation that enables them to find the lichen on which they feed more easily in months of darkness.

From National Geographic • Feb. 1, 2024

Further south in Devon, on Dartmoor, rare species of moss and lichen have been identified at Lydford Gorge in the past few years.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2024

The only signs of green were the pale patches of lichen strangling the living rocks on which they grew.

From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis