This tree was insanely bedecked with hangers-on of all shades.
Interestingly, what we think of as lichen is actually a symbiotic relationship between a fungus and a photosynthetic organism like a green alga. Who knew? It's like when I found out that a Portuguese Man o'War is not a jellyfish.* Except lichen doesn't have 50 metre long tentacles. For which I am sure we're all thankful.
* It's a siphonophore, a collection of different organisms called zooids. So. Now you know.
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