Symbiosis Collection

Acacia Ants - Whistling Thorn and Stinging Ants, on Acacia Gall Plant (Acacia drepanolobiun)

Teloschistes chrysopthalmus, lichen
Lichen shown in its herbarium packet from the collections of the Natural History Museum, London. Some lichens look virtually the same as dried specimens as in the field

Xanthoria parietina, lichen
Shown here is a maritime sunburst lichen. A photograph of the ascus containing eight ascopores

Field equipment

Lichens result from an intimate relationship between a fungus and an alga; there are about 18, 000 species

Truffle hunting
A man and boy accompanied by four small dogs, hunt for truffles in a forest. Truffles, a fungus that grows in symbiosis with certain trees, and a culinary delicacy

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