lichen

He pointed out warblers, lace lichen and tree limbs coated in an orange algae called trentepohlia.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 28, 2024

The plot of land where it sits originally held a logging shack; the ramshackle original structure still sits on the property, festooned by the passage of time by moss and lichen.

From Seattle Times ● May 6, 2024

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

When she was riding, sometimes she would suddenly glimpse dark brown skin, mottled like lichen.

From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo

“If I were to make a prediction, I would envisage a growing fraction of the Peninsula’s landscape becoming dominated by a mosaic ecosystem of mosses, lichens, liverworts and fungi,” Roland said.

From Salon ● Oct. 19, 2024

Fortunato Gatto came across a gnarled birch tree draped with pale ‘old man’s beard’ lichens in Glen Affric in the Scottish highlands.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2024

Algae, pollen and lichens do accumulate in shady areas.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 30, 2024

Nestled within the photosynthetic, or light-eating, tissue of the boreal trees -- and within the bountiful cloud-like lichens and feathery mosses that carpet the ground between them -- are fungi.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 20, 2024

Around him soft bright moss curled up the yellow birches, lichens roughened the rocks, and crushed needles let go their piney scent.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt