Lost civilizations in Mosquitia Honduras have been uncovered with high tech new methods that can penetrate the triple-canopy rainforest. One of them has been known by indigenous people and European explorers as multiple names: La Ciudad Blanca, City of the Jaguar, City of the Monkey God—or simply, White City.
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Ghost pipe rising from the damp, shady forest floor
Ghost Pipe, Monotropa uniflora, is a peculiar perennial found in leaf litter in dark nooks of the Maine forests. Its energy is sapped from an intimate relationship between a tree and fungus, making ghost pipe a parasitic third-wheel.
Responsible Moss and Lichen Collection in the Maine Forest
Mosses and lichens are ancient plants. In fact, they were the first to creep out of the preverbal waters as algae as tiny plants that clung to rocks creating the basis for plant life on land. A single moss can live for thousands of years and grow on every continent, even the in the Antarctic….