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| | | The Living World is a gentle weekend natural history programme, which aims to broadcast the best, most intimate encounters with British wildlife.
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"The Living World is the next best thing to being there. Our contributors are skilled naturalists who are able to reveal those fascinating facts about animals and plants that you don't always find in books. It's like having a personal guided tour of the countryside, without needing to leave the house."
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|  | | | Lichens at home on a gravestone |
A Place Among Stones
One area where angels never fear to tread and lichens love to linger is around churches. The older, undisturbed gravestones of churchyards in southern England provide a vital habitat for those lichens that need to live on stone.
Between a rock and a hard place, lichens will take up residence wherever they can - across every surface and all the nooks, crannies and lettering of the gravestones. Some of the more colourful ones form splodges of colour like oil paint merging on an artist's palette.
Lichens are made up of two different plants living together in partnership - an algae and a fungus - and each bring something of benefit to the relationship. In this week's Living World Brett joins lichenologist, Joy Ricketts, in a south Worcestershire churchyard to take a very close look at the various forms and families to be found on the different ages of sandstone and limestone gravestones. | | |
RELATED LINKS
British Lichen Society
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