The UK’s largest woodland conservation charity is fighting to make sure the rainforests across the country are preserved for ...

Fungi don't just live in soils and with land plants, or breaking down complex materials like wood. They also thrive in the ...

While they're sometimes mistaken for moss, lichens are miniature ecosystems made up of a fungus and algae or bacteria that can make energy from sunlight, living together in one body. They don't ...

In return, the plant provides the fungi with energy-rich carbohydrates. Another type of mutualistic fungus occurs in lichens. A lichen appears to be a single organism but is actually a composite: a ...

Every lichen species is a fungus that encompasses a photosynthesis organism that uses sunlight to produce foods from carbon dioxide and water. Usually the other species is a photosynthesizing alga, ...

Looking for help identifying fungi, lichen or bryophytes that you've found? We've gathered a selection identification guides, for both beginners and those with a little more experience. We've also ...

From helping plants to colonize terrestrial earth to treating disease in humans, is there anything fungi can’t do? Chris Dart Neither plants nor animals, fungi are the most underappreciated ...

RECENT investigations 1 into the micromorphological features of hill soils in north-east Scotland have revealed the presence, within the soil profile, of what appear to be perithecia containing ...

The collections contain lichens and lichenicolous fungi from around the world including Britain, Ireland, Antarctic areas, Australia and New Zealand, Sri Lanka and India, and Thailand.

Genetic analysis revealed hundreds of different fungi, including lichen, fungi living on the roots of plants, and fungal pathogens, most of which are unknown or extremely rare. Most species have ...