EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Fruticose lichens can be pendant and hair-like, upright and shrubby, or upright and cup-like. Many fruticose lichens have round branches that have a central core and others are hollow in the middle. Other fruticose lichens have flat branches that tangle up with each other. Cladonia fimbriata, trumpet lichen.

Detailed explanation-2: -A fruticose lichen is a form of lichen fungi that is characterized by a coral-like shrubby or bushy growth structure. It is formed from a symbiotic relationship of a photobiont such as green algae or less commonly cyanobacteria and one, two or more mycobionts.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cladonia, Ramalina and Usnea are the common examples of fruticose lichens.

Detailed explanation-4: -Fruticose lichens exhibit a three-dimensional structure. For example, they may be bushy, spindly, stringy, branching, swag-like or cup-shaped, but their main stems are nearly always round in cross-section.