Lichens are my new obsession! Lichens are a unique forms of vegetation in that they are a composite life form: a fungus living in symbiosis with a photosynthesizing organism (which may be a green algae or a cyanobacteria, or both). This combination has been so successful that nearly 14,000 species of lichens are known to exist, ranging globally from pole to pole and on every type of land surface.
They are so beautiful. I have already started to draw and paint them and I feel driven to paint in a way that I have not felt in a long time. My biology professor is even getting me some work doing these illustration's for science books! I will get paid for liken Lichens!
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