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 ...

Whether you're learning to forage for mushrooms or identifying the fungi on your backyard tree, here are 15 common mushrooms you should know how to recognize.

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, ...

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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.

The Deppea splendens is native to Mexico, but is now considered to be extinct in the wild. The greenhouse can produce more trees by using cuttings from the current plant, but those are clones and ...

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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.