Photo By/Credit
Andrea Pickart/USFWS
Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
Image
Close up of pixie cups lichen. A lichen is a symbiotic pairing of an algae or cyanobacteria, which can photosysnthesis, with a fungus. Credit: Andrea Pickart/USFWS
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