Sentence examples for lichens from inspiring English sources

Maurizio points out strange lichens, trees and plants: Indian bread, an edible (but tasteless) fungus; winter's bark, a source of vitamin C; and at one point explains at length how an entire ecosystem has developed on a single fallen log.

For Oliver, woods weren't abstract entities; they were symbiotic networks of carpenters, beetles, deer, land-thieves, lichens, pollards, surveyors and toadstools.

The softening of the soil and the consequent release of nutrients is likely to encourage the growth of shrubs on land that is now dominated by grass, moss and lichens.

Ten thousand young oaks, he wrote, could not replace one 500-year-old, which made an entire ecosystem for insects, lichens, bats and birds.

For example, he mentions a scientific paper that suggests that lichens, bacteria and the like may have been a driving force behind prehistoric geology and the formation of continents.

He was delighted that lichens made patterns on his York stone paths, and that wild birds-foot trefoil colonised the Sunken Garden.

Plantlike lichens also are common.

Archil, orchil, and orseille are similar mixtures of dyes, obtained from lichens by different methods; cudbear is the common name for the lichen Ochrolechia tartarea and the dye therefrom.

Ferns, mosses, liverworts, lichens, and algae are also abundant and diverse, although not as well studied and cataloged as the higher plants.

Certain species, for example, grow in a mutualistic relationship with fungi, forming composite organisms known as lichens.

Cyanobacteria and green algae are generally the first to colonize bare ground, followed by lichens and mosses, which require stable soil strata for growth.