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Lichen

Basidiomycetes

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Field Notes

Description:

Green branched lichen. Orange and white mushroom like caps.

Habitat:

Growing on the trunk of a blueberry bush.

Notes:

Lichens are a composite organism. Symbiotic organisms. Algae or cyanobacteria living among the filaments of fungi.

They are classified by the species of fungi.

The oldest known living organism is a lichen dated at 8,600 years.

Orange and white caps could be reproductive structures of the lichen fungi and or a lichenicolous fungi. Lichenicolous fungi are obligate parasites of lichens.

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