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Desert lichens grow less than a millimeter a year and can live for centuries or even thousands of years. The orange one is a Caloplaca species and the gray green one is of the foliose or leafy families of lichens. To me they are a beautiful complex life form that is a symbiotic partnership of two separate organisms, a fungus and an alga.