Archive for the tag 'Katherine Swift'

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The Biology of a Lichen

I have always loved seeing lichen on stone walls and in churchyards but until I read Katherine Swift’s The Morville Year I had no idea how fascinating it really is:
A lichen consists of not one but two organisms living in symbiosis: a fungus, capable of withstanding extremes of temperature and drought but unable to photosynthesis, and an alga, which [...]

18 Comments CherryPie on Feb 11th 2013