Cap fungus is a classic type of mushroom with a cap-like structure that's typically found on a tree's trunk. Oyster mushrooms (Pluerotus) are a type of cap fungus, and they are some of the most ...

These organisms, named Prototaxites, lived around 420 million to 375 million years ago during the Devonian period and resembled branchless, cylindrical tree trunks. These organisms ... might not have ...

Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...

Lichens are nearly everywhere — odd growths that appear as crusty patches and splotches on tree trunks, limbs ... plantlike structure composed of a fungus and an alga — or sometimes a ...

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Senna spectabilis, or the ‘manja konna’, an invasive tree species that invaded the forests of Kerala, especially Wayanad, and nearly eradica ...