Symbiosis and survival: Xanthoria elegans

摘要

I f arts and literature serve the purposes of perspective and beauty, balancing the challenging day-to-day of child and adolescent psychiatry, then nature too belongs in JCAPAP’s Arts & Literature and Nature (ALAN) column. In the last issue of the Journal, three movies were reviewed. Today a short photographic reflection on lichens on Lake Superior! So, what are those patches all over those boulders? Minerals? Moss? Most often lichens. See the striking orange of Xanthoria elegans of Lake Superior rock faces in Plates 1 and 2, with Hare Bell in Plate 3.