Collema coccophorum ("tar jelly lichen") on a mossy boulder, Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona. Many lichens with cyanobacteria as their photosynthetic partners are gelatinous when wet and brittle when dry.
Photograph copyright Stephen/Sylvia Sharnoff
Collema coccophorum ("tar jelly lichen") on a mossy boulder, Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona. Many lichens with cyanobacteria as their photosynthetic partners are gelatinous when wet and brittle when dry.
Photograph copyright Stephen/Sylvia Sharnoff