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{{Ingredient
|name=Lichen
|image=Placeholder.png
|type=Botanical
|source=Rock and tree-growing lichens
|class=Botanical Ingredients
|uses=Ageing and weathering potions, camouflage draughts
|potions=None listed
|properties=Associated with age and slow growth
|effects=Mildly reinforces endurance or “oldness”
|hazard=Low
|shelf=Dried
|theme=botanical
|notes=Often scraped from castle stones by thrifty students on field assignments.
}}

A slow-growing symbiotic organism, lichen is tied to longevity, endurance, and the passage of time.  
It lends a subtle stabilizing influence to potions that require slow development or ageing effects.  
Though mundane in appearance, it remains a trusted ingredient in transmutative herbalism.