Author: Nicholas Carter, Lecturer in Physical Geography, University of Oxford

Lichens at Blenheim Palace. Ian Wallman , CC BY-SA Lichens on stone, those “still explosions” as the great American poet Elizabeth Bishop named them, remain unseen to most, which is remarkable when you consider how commonplace they are. It seems these ecologically and culturally significant whatever-they-ares unfairly fall victim to something akin to plant blindness, […]