Tree Garden Magic

I pasted below, the most simplest of definitions of Lichen.

The example on my blips is of a single palm tree in a neighbour's otherwise barren front yard. This current weather has been the perfect conditions for this stunning garden to proliferate.

I see lichen all the time but rarely get to see it in such fecundity!! Amazing

Lichens are a complex life form that is a symbiotic partnership of two separate organisms, a fungus and an alga. The dominant partner is the fungus, which gives the lichen the majority of its characteristics, from its thallus shape to its fruiting bodies....