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Name: Dominique G.
Status: student
Age: 10
Location: N/A
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Date: 1/21/2004
Question:
What grows on a tree bark?

Replies:
Many different kinds of organisms might live on the bark of a particular tree, including lichens

http://www.hiddenforest.co.nz/lichens/what.htm

fungi

http://www.caf.wvu.edu/bark/

and insects

http://www.treehelp.com/trees/elm/elm-insects-elmbarkbeetle.asp

Anthony Brach Ph.D.
Harvard University


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