Others specialsLichens, mushrooms, mossos or others----------Photographs - Geographical location----------City :
MucugêThe word chapada means mountains.
The village of Mucugê is located in the center of mountains of the Chapada Diamantina, in una altitude of 980 meters.
The village was established at the major exploration programs for gold and diamonds, in the eighteenth century, and was, like the village of Lençóis located at the north, a large mineral trading center, as evidenced by the many Portuguese vestiges of that era.
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Chapada DiamantinaState :
Bahia Information:
Lichens have a very particular character: they are double, even sometimes triple beings since they are formed from the very close association (or symbiosis) between a fungus and a microscopic partner capable of carrying out photosynthesis, i.e. a green algae, or a cyanobacterium (or sometimes both together!).
The study of lichens is no longer a matter of botany but of mycology and it is not just a question of words: to really understand and study lichens, you have to know fungi deeply.
