Lichens, Truffles, Puffballs

Lichens If you’ve ever encountered pale green crusts clinging to rocks, bright orange patches splashed across the rooftops or wispy strands hanging from tree branches, you’ve already crossed paths with a distinctive subset of the fungi kingdom: lichens. For generations, lichens were introduced in textbooks as simple partnerships between a fungus and a photosynthetic partnerContinueContinue reading “Lichens, Truffles, Puffballs”