Assertion: lichen | /r/HasProperty | sustaining –
Facets:
value: in feeding itself
type: MANNER
value: generally
type: DEGREE
value: relatively slowly
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Lichen is self-sustaining –
text: Lichens are long-lived and grow relatively slowly, and there is still some question as to how they propagate.
text: The simplest way to tell if lichen is dormant or growing is by looking at its color.
text: A lichen may absorb certain mineral nutrients from any of these substrates on which it grows, but is generally self-reliant in feeding itself through photosynthesis in the algal cells.
text: Because lichen is self-sustaining, it does not need to take any nutrients from the tree that it is on, and therefore is not harming the tree.
text: Lichen is self-sustaining –