Not to be confused with moss, lichens are their own thing — and they actually aren’t plants at all. They’re made up of two or more parts: an algae and a fungus working in close symbiotic ...

Not to be confused with moss, lichens are their own thing — and they actually aren’t plants at all. They’re made up of two or more parts: an algae and a fungus working in close symbiotic ...

Lichen are ecological anomalies. As hybrid colonies of algae or cyanobacteria in symbiosis with fungus, they are plantlike, but not plants — fungal in nature, but not the fungus itself. The entangled ...

Often overlooked as it quietly clings to trees and rocks, lichen is a resilient organism built on a unique symbiosis between fungi and algae or cyanobacteria, that allows it to survive in the most ...