I’m not sure what to do with the erratic weather we’ve been experiencing recently — warm, then icy cold, then warm again. A friend posted a photo of a spotted salamander roving around, presumably ...

A Spanish moss-like substance can be seen hanging from spruce trees around Summit County. There are a number of spruce trees in a cluster in Cucumber Gulch in Breckenridge, which has this growing on ...

For today's column, I decided to discuss an entity that is commonly turned in to us - Usnea lichens, more commonly called Old Man's Beard or Goat's Beard Lichen.This entity is not a plant but rather a ...

Misidentified and not just recently — but for more than 150 years! It is nothing to do with wanting both the ravula (beard) and the kenda (cunjee) as frequently mentioned in Sinhala parlance but ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Lichens can be divided into three types. Crustose lichens lie flat on the ...

A team of researchers has recorded a rare species of lichen called ‘Usnea hirta’, belonging to family Parmeliaceae, at Mullayanagiri in Chikkamagaluru. The species was recorded for the first time in ...

A recent article published by Molina-Montenegro et al. (Journal of Vegetation Science 24: 463) examines the association of Antarctic native plant and lichen species to the lichen Usnea antarctica on ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. It is almost the middle of April and I have finally lost most of the snow ...

A type of lichen named Usnea ghattensis, found in the northern areas of the Western Ghats particularly in the vicinity of Mahabaleshwar, could well be the source of the next wonder drug. Pune: A type ...

Three lichen transplant experiments examined the effect of height in the canopy on the growth rates of four lichen species, using the Wind River Canopy Crane in an old-growth Pseudotsuga-Tsuga forest ...