As a forester, I often get asked tree health questions, and one involves flat blotches of stuff growing on well-established ...

I often receive calls from concerned individuals about gray, fuzzy growths appearing on plants that seem to be causing harm.

Known colloquially as ‘stinky sticta’, this lichen has really earned its name ... often using favoured perches among tree branches from which to dart at passing prey. They will also take ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were an early lichen or fungus, like a “giant mushroom” ...

A rare lichen has been transplanted by hand after the Lake District tree it was living in blew over. Lungwort - Lobaria pulmonaria - used to be widespread in England but is now found in only a few ...

Dawn Brennan inspects the bark of a tree covered in several different lichens during a Lichen in the Winter World walk held by the Glacier Institute around Apgar in Glacier National Park on ...