Caloplaca saxicola
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Caloplaca saxicola is a lichen
species, with the common name of Jewel lichen or Rock jewel lichen. This lichen occurs over a portion of northern North America
. A specific example occurrence is within the northern reaches of the Canadian Boreal forests, where Black Spruce
is a dominant tree.
Lichen
Lichens are composite organisms consisting of a symbiotic organism composed of a fungus with a photosynthetic partner , usually either a green alga or cyanobacterium...
species, with the common name of Jewel lichen or Rock jewel lichen. This lichen occurs over a portion of northern North America
North America
North America is a continent wholly within the Northern Hemisphere and almost wholly within the Western Hemisphere. It is also considered a northern subcontinent of the Americas...
. A specific example occurrence is within the northern reaches of the Canadian Boreal forests, where Black Spruce
Black Spruce
Picea mariana is a species of spruce native to northern North America, from Newfoundland west to Alaska, and south to northern New York, Minnesota and central British Columbia...
is a dominant tree.