I visited my village (Southeastern EU) after years of school and found close to 70% of all the greenery (in the village+ surrounding areas) covered with this lichen (?). I do not recall anything like this before I left.
Both living trees and dying trees had it, and it seems like they began to die because of it. It also appears to be able to spread from one tree to another.
What is this, and is there anything I can do about it— other than burning everything down like the neighbors want to do?
by CaelCantLove
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Spanish Moss?
Trees can house 10s to 100s of different lichen and fungi species at once.
Lichen was my first reaction.
Lichen! Idk what kind.
I would be interested to know what might cause a sudden lichen population boom
It’s just lichen, which is a symbiotic relationship between fungi and algae. The trees are not “dying because of it.”
Lichen are ubiquitous in the Pacific Northwest
I don’t know, but I’m likin’ it (lichen it)
Wouldn’t you lichen to know.
They are infested with the gayness.