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I found a maple red tree outside of  the Durfee Conservatory and Garden in a rectangularly shaped piece of land that contained multiple rocks and small paths, right in front of a space of grass. The tree did not have any leaves coming off the branches due to the cold weather it was bare on top. It had many lichens covering the trunk of the tree some large some small. These lichens were ruffled pieces of green on the tree. Once I saw these lichens on the tree I got close up the tree a foot away from it and took a photo, using my phone in portrait mode, of the trunk making sure that the trunk took up most of the photo only a fourth of the image showed the background. In this photo there were two very large lichens and three smaller ones as well as a sprinkle of lichens around the trunk. I took another photo closer up to the tree allowing one fourth of the left side of the image to just be the background. This image did not have as many large lichens or smaller ones it just showed a splattering of lichens on the trunk. These lichens appeared more white then green. The next photo I took included my ucard for size reference. Once again most of the image was taken up by the tree trunk which once again was a foot away from me. My ucard was flipped showing the black strip closest to the lichen. These lichen were the two large ones and three medium ones with the ucard being next to the large lichen that appeared the lowest in the image. The trunk looked black in the background. All the photos taken were in portrait mode and I emailed them to myself to get access to them on my computer.