[TheForge] OT - Asphalt shingle rot? (Lichen)

[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

It's a very old symbiosis, as are all complex life forms.

Jerry Frost wrote:
> That works for me Mark, I don't know what the stuff is, other than . . . 
> DIFFERENT.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Jer
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> Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 1:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [TheForge] OT - Asphalt shingle rot? (Lichen)
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>>
>> Jerrry,
>>
>>
>>
>> As I recall, lichen is a combination of a fungus and alga. A symbiont 
>> relationship. The fungus provides the anchor and the moisture or 
>> protection from drying out while the alga provides food from nutrients and 
>> photosynthesis. It is not, technically, an air plant.
>>
>>
>>
>> Mark Williams
>>
>> Snow Hill, Maryland
>>
>>
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