Color Names

Lichen

Fuzzy, pale growth on weathered stone, a little green, a little grey.

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Lichen is a pastel green.

It can be described as pastel, soft, light and unsaturated.

Set in black, because black reads best on it.

Lichen

Lichen

A lichen is a hybrid colony of algae or cyanobacteria living symbiotically among filaments of multiple fungus species, along with bacteria embedded in the cortex, or "skin", in a mutualistic relationship. Lichens are the lifeform that first brought the term symbiosis into biological context.

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lichen

Noun

  1. Any of many symbiotic organisms, being associations of algae and fungi, often found as white or yellow-to-blue–green patches on rocks, old walls, etc.
  2. Something which gradually spreads across something else, causing damage.

Verb

  1. To cover with lichen.
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