Looking for help identifying fungi, lichen or bryophytes that you've found? We've gathered a selection identification guides, for both beginners and those with a little more experience. We've also ...

RECENT investigations 1 into the micromorphological features of hill soils in north-east Scotland have revealed the presence, within the soil profile, of what appear to be perithecia containing ...

In return, the plant provides the fungi with energy-rich carbohydrates. Another type of mutualistic fungus occurs in lichens. A lichen appears to be a single organism but is actually a composite: a ...

Lichen is not a single organism the way most other living things are, but rather a combination of two organisms which live together intimately. Every lichen species is a fungus that encompasses a ...

You may have come across a lichen, which is a unique fusion of plant and fungus. Lichens are living things and they can cause ...

This material was transferred to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew on permanent loan. The collections contain lichens and lichenicolous fungi from around the world including Britain, Ireland, Antarctic ...

Can you guess what is pictured in the photo below? The answer to last week's mystery is foliose lichen, pictured in the photo ...

The first observation of symbiosis was the recognition that lichen is actually two independent organisms that live together — a fungus and a blue–green alga. The word symbiosis, originally ...