Vancouver Island University (formerly Malaspina University-College) has a regional campus in Duncan that offers programs and courses in university transfer, access, trades and applied technology, health and human services, and career and academic preparation.he Coast Salish men and women of the Cowichan Tribes are makers of the world famous Cowichan Sweaters. Duncan is home to the BC Forest Discovery Centre. Before the CanadaâUnited States softwood lumber dispute, Duncan and the whole Cowichan Valley were a thriving lumber centre in British Columbia.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Letharia vulpina, commonly known as the wolf lichen (although the species name vulpina, from vulpine relates to the fox), is a fruticose lichenized species of fungus in the family Parmeliaceae.
So, really, lichens are effectively photosynthetic in the same sense plants are. But are a composite organism composed of a fungus (nonphotosynthetic) and cyanobacteria (photosynthetic), instead of a single organism.n fungi we can find mushrooms, toadstools, yeasts, molds and more. â¦ According to the newest classification, fungi are eukaryotic (genetic material surrounded by a membrane, i.e nucleus), haploid (only one set of cromosomes) or diploid (two sets of cromosomes) that make zygotic meiosis.