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At 7 AM, we set out on a walk through Makkandur Forest in Madikeri, Coorg. Mist-covered hills and sprawling coffee ...

Although often overlooked, lichens are just about everywhere. They grow on trees, the ground, buildings, abandoned automobiles, rocks and gravestones, on bare sand, on each other, and even in ...

The presence of lichen or moss on backyard trees can understandably be concerning at first. Lichen is a combination of algae and fungus that lives on any number of solid, undisturbed surfaces, ...

But this always makes me wonder: Pieces of houses and big trees are tossed around like toys during extreme weather, but palm trees seem able to stand their ground. Given their location they are ...

Call me heretical, but sometimes I feel that way about L.A.’s palm trees. The difference is that there is almost nowhere that you won’t see a palm tree, including right out my back door.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — As winter strips deciduous trees bare, lichen becomes more visible on branches and trunks, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service. This hardy organism, a combination of ...

Those green-blue growths that you see on tree trunks and branches are not mosses. They are lichens. Lichens are not killing your tree, nor are they causing it to fail. They are telling you ...

Along the iconic Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, palm trees line both sides of the roadway. They tower above the tourists and traffic, synonymous with Los Angeles in the minds of visitors.