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Project 366 – Post No. 237 – Boreal epiphytes
ByMario Pineda November 21, 2019November 21, 2019

What is Project 366? Read more here. An epiphyte is an organism that grows on the surface of a plant and derives its moisture and nutrients from the air, rain, water or from debris accumulating around it. While epiphytes in the tropics are know to be rather splendid in size and diversity the boreal zone…

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Project 366 – Post No. 169 – Lichen fungal tree-some
ByMario Pineda September 14, 2019September 14, 2019

What is Project 366? Read more here! The prevailing view of lichens for the last 150 years or so has been that they a composite organism resulting from a mutually beneficial relationship between a fungus and an algae. It turns out that recent research from the University of Alberta (which is in my neck of…

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