As the early morning sunlight lasers over the horizon, autumn tumbles in amid flurries of fluttering leaves, glowing golden, orange-y, and scarlet. Fall has arrived, yet the weather remains quite warm ...

The snow pack of January covers the entire forest floor. Many plants, even some with green leaves, survive under this cold blanket. Though they often hold masses of the white stuff, trees reach far ...

Lichens are nearly everywhere — odd growths that appear as crusty patches and splotches on tree trunks, limbs, rocks, bare soil, stone walls, tombstones, wooden fences. Regardless, lichens often get ...

Gardeners and homeowners often contact our Horticulture Hotline at Cornell Cooperative Extension in Oriskany when they notice a grayish blue-green crusty or mossy looking growth on trees, shrubs, ...

We often see what we think of as moss growing among tree branches, or we see a crusty, colored coating on the bark of trees or rocks. Sometimes we notice a greenish velvet carpeting on rocks, walls or ...