lichen
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Functional for the outdoors, jackets are cut from cotton gabardine, wool and cashmere for warmth, while the Burberry Check is reworked in earthy colorways like sand and lichen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2024
“A rich garden of life has grown on the megaliths, an exceptional lichen garden has grown. So it’s potentially quite concerning.”
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 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
An old wooden sign, speckled with green moss and blue-gray lichen, stands near the reservoir’s edge.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
There was no grass, but deep carpets of green lichen stretched out like meadows.
From "The Book of Three" by Lloyd Alexander
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Glow worms, slime moulds and rare lichens are among 1,109 species discovered in just one corner of Scotland's rainforest.
From BBC ● May 21, 2026
“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
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
Now trees were growing up again, but there were tangled old limbs in piles and ancient stumps overgrown with lichens and moss and little green leaves and ferns.
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
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