Are Lichens Plants? - GardenBanter.co.uk

01-07-2003, 02:32 PM

Iris Cohen

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Are Lichens Plants?

I know we sometimes discuss lichens here. Not that I would tell anyone not to.
They are a symbiotic combination of a fungus and an alga. Are they still
considered plants? Is lichenology still a branch of botany? What about
mycology?
Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming
train."
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)

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