Shrubs such as these are very often accompanied by "beard lichen" growing amongst the branches.

Pollution sensitive beard lichens have also become sparser in the southern region which indicates the effects of air pollution.

The presence of these beard lichens in the canopy of the forest can act as a moisture buffer to maintain high humidity conditions.

Before the industrial revolution it is likely that beard lichens festooned the trees in some parts of the Calder Valley.

The nest consists of a pile of soft materials (preferably soft beard lichen) into which the squirrel burrows.

The breeding habitat is humid woodland with growths of Old Man's Beard lichen or Spanish moss.

Usnea strigosa, Bushy Beard Lichen, is a lichen in the family Parmeliaceae.

Scarlet Rhododendrons and Dimorphanthera abound in the gnarled dwarf forest and white beard lichens hang in the branches.

Beard Lichens Plants In the Wooded Areas Lichens The following is a table with the different plants which can be classified as "lichens."

The crowns of the trees are typically covered by a very lush growth of beard lichens, including Usnea longissima, Alectoria sarmentosa and Bryoria trichodes ssp. trichodes.

Usnea filipendula (fishbone beard lichen) is a pale gray-green lichen lichen with a pendant growth form, growing in up to 20 cm many-branching tassels hanging from the bark of trees.

The plant's specific name usneoides means "resembling Usnea", and it indeed closely resembles its namesake Usnea, also known as beard lichen, but in fact Spanish moss is neither a moss nor a lichen.

Usnea rubicunda, commonly known as the red beard lichen, is a type of arboreal lichen native to temperate regions in North, Central and South America, as well as Europe, Eastern Asia, and North Africa.

These green, moist gullies of treefern and tall old yellow wood trees, the branches draped with beard lichen and the vines of wild grape, made a cool, dark contrast to the barren, sun-baked hills of aloe, thorn scrub, rock and coarse grass.