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

“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

The eyes of reindeer shine blue in winter, an adaptation that enables them to find the lichen on which they feed more easily in months of darkness.

From National Geographic • Feb. 1, 2024

She put her hand to a tree and touched the lichen growing dark green upon brown, and it felt like old cork, dry and crumbling.

From "Ash" by Malinda Lo