This relationship allows lichen to grow where few other plants can grow, like bare rocks, fence posts, and limbs and trunks of trees. Again, the lichen is harmless to the tree. Moss ...

A forest is really a community of plants and animals. Within this large community are smaller groups of living things that grow together. Even an individual tree often has an association of plants ...

Some general types of mushrooms that grow on trees include bracket or 'shelf' mushrooms, jelly fungus, and cap fungus, although the wild world of mushrooms rarely fits into these neat categories.

In the summer a good soaking, with lightning and a little wind, really freshens things up. The plants are greener, the air is charged with negative ions and, if you’re lucky, there is a cool breeze.

Plants are living things that grow in soil and need water, sunlight and air to survive. Plants grow all over the world, in our gardens and in the wild. They can be big, like trees, ...

Wild Things Hanging From Spruce Trees. September 5, 2013 8:30 AM ET. By . Robert Krulwich Stanley Kunitz, one of our great poets, planted a spruce tree next to his house in Provincetown, Mass ...

Some were discovered growing wild, while some of them were intentionally bred to combine characteristics of two apples. Some older heirloom fruits are no longer grown or even remembered.

Wild Things: Long wait to discover future of Crossness Nature Reserve. A new book helps those seeking tree knowledge. Trees of Britain and Ireland is the latest identification guide in the superb ...

Michigan is home to a surprising array of crops, including wild rice, mint, asparagus and sugar. Here are 10 things that grow in the state.