Wednesday 2 October 2013

Lichens

Some species of fungi will only grow to reproducing if they are in contact with a green algae.  The green algae is surrounded by the fungi, which provide it with a good environment for photosynthesis.

(The green algae can live without the fungi, but the fungi can't live without the green algae.)

What's really interesting is that some of the fungi can live with more than one variety of green algae - and will grow into different body shapes depending which algae they absorb.

We call these symbiotic systems 'Lichen'.

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