26-02-2003, 01:54 PM
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Lichens
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(Jonathan Ward) writes:
| A lot of my trees and shrubs have lichen on them.This appears to be robust
| enoough to stop buds (both flowe and leaf) developing in places. Is the lichen
| harming the plants or is it just adapting to other problems. For example we
| appear to have a lot of canker in the garden.
Almost certainly the latter. As far as I know, lichens will never
stop the development of buds, at least on plants in the UK, but
the failure of bugs to develop will allow the lichen to grow
when otherwise it might have been pushed off.
Regards,
Nick Maclaren,
University of Cambridge Computing Service,
New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Cambridge CB2 3QH, England.
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