FUNGI vs LICHENS

• • Fungi thrive best in warm tropical and subtropical regions
  • Lichens flourish in temperate and colder regions
• • Fungi prefer moist, dark, shady places and vitiated atmosphere of towns
  • Lichens prefer to be exposed to air and light and dislike smokey atmosphere
• • Fungi requires living or dead organic matter to absorb nutrients and demand much moisture
  • Lichens can grow on barren substratum under drought and starvation conditions
• • Fungi can grow either a parasite or a saprophyte
  • Lichens grow generally as epiphytes or autophytes
• • Fungi thallus is generally colorless
  • Lichens thallus are generally colored due to various acids
• • Fungi thallus are usually filamentous mycelium, delicate in texture and immersed in substratum
  • Lichens thallus is generally tough, leathery in texture and in most lichens are soft as rubber sponge