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Community photo entitled  by Steve Price on 09/29/2023 at Mounds Reef, Utah

On 09/29/2023 08:15 am by Steve Price| Mounds Reef, Utah

Desert lichens grow less than a millimeter a year and can live for centuries or even thousands of years. The orange one is a Caloplaca species and the gray green one is of the foliose or leafy families of lichens. To me they are a beautiful complex life form that is a symbiotic partnership of two separate organisms, a fungus and an alga.

Google Pixel 5 phone camera

Cropped, sharpened.