It's Alive!
Though small lichen colonies often look like paintball splats, they are very much alive. They grow very slowly but are tenacious and hearty survivors. Technically a lichen is a composite organism that arises from algae and/or cyanobacteria living among filaments of a fungus in a symbiotic relationship. For the Macro Mondays group, topic: "It's Alive! Happy Macro Monday!
It's Alive!
Though small lichen colonies often look like paintball splats, they are very much alive. They grow very slowly but are tenacious and hearty survivors. Technically a lichen is a composite organism that arises from algae and/or cyanobacteria living among filaments of a fungus in a symbiotic relationship. For the Macro Mondays group, topic: "It's Alive! Happy Macro Monday!