Lichen, not to be confused with werewolves

I did not lycan them to one another.

Edit:

I made another meme about it:

I am attempting to grow lichen indoors for some reason. Wish I would have read more before impulse buying because apparently this is a fool’s errand

Sooooo… Pick the right one, shoot it to mars, come back a few hundred years later to have a proper foundation for other organisms?

I was taught in my Micro course that lichen is actually a symbiosis between 3 organisms: fungi, algae, and cyanobacteria. The cyanobacteria produces energy, but more importantly fixes nitrogen into a more biologically available form, which would not be otherwise accessible in the environments that lichen grows in

Does making vitamin D using sunlight count as photosynthesis?

I don’t understand how they survive wildlife if they’re that fragile

Breaks down rock

Prevents erosion

So… both?

Prevents run off erosion is what they meant presumably

Not that long ago, mushrooms were plants. I mean they weren’t, but we hadn’t figured that out yet. I hadn’t figured it until today what lichen is but have eaten it!