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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  • Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Does making vitamin D using sunlight count as photosynthesis?

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  • rhythmisaprancer@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Not that long ago, mushrooms were plants. I mean they weren’t, but we hadn’t figured that out yet. I hadn’t figured it until today what lichen is 😔 but have eaten it!

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• Asetru@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sooooo… Pick the right one, shoot it to mars, come back a few hundred years later to have a proper foundation for other organisms?

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• glimse@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I am attempting to grow lichen indoors for some reason. Wish I would have read more before impulse buying because apparently this is a fool’s errand

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• NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Lichen, not to be confused with werewolves

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  • roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I did not lycan them to one another.

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• supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Yes, be delicate with your feet! Walking in nature is an active process, not a passive one and Lichens are way easier to destroy than they look.

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• dellish@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Breaks down rock Prevents erosion

  So… both?

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  • Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Prevents run off erosion is what they meant presumably

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• AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I don’t understand how they survive wildlife if they’re that fragile

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• Contramuffin@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I was taught in my Micro course that lichen is actually a symbiosis between 3 organisms: fungi, algae, and cyanobacteria. The cyanobacteria produces energy, but more importantly fixes nitrogen into a more biologically available form, which would not be otherwise accessible in the environments that lichen grows in

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