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One could speculate that lichens would be among the last inhabitants to succumb on a dying earth at some distant point in the future.
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― The Kingdom Fungi: The Biology of Mushrooms, Molds, and Lichens
― The Kingdom Fungi: The Biology of Mushrooms, Molds, and Lichens
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Between the disappearance of the river and its re-emegence is like a desert river valley, clearly carved by water, with rounded stones in the bottom and steep sides, but no water running. Yet here there are elm trees, one of which is huge, with a magnificent trunk festooned with mosses, lichens, polypody ferns and fungi, a rich tapestry of rainforest life. Uniquely, it grows horizontally out of the rock, many metres up the sheer wall of the ravine, a completely implausible place for a tree to gr
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― The Lost Elms: A Love Letter to Our Vanished Trees – and the Fight to Save Them
― The Lost Elms: A Love Letter to Our Vanished Trees – and the Fight to Save Them
