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
The best habitat for the survival of the lichen L. vulpina is the oldest trees in the forest, the authors note.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 2, 2024
"The ancient woodlands are full of moss and lichen which light up under UV and lots of creatures too, like wood lice and centipedes all doing interesting things."
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 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
Sometimes their bodies grow over with lichen or bloom with mushrooms.
From "The Cruel Prince" by Holly Black
Insects, reptiles, trees, lichens and mosses have been killed.
From BBC ● Aug. 8, 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
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
The sun was newly risen, and the rocks and the lichens and mosses on them shone crisp and brilliant in the morning light, but nowhere could he see a figure.
From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman
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