Protoblastenia terricola

This crustose lichen has a white-gray, areolate to subsquamulose thallus and orange to orange-brown, convex apothecia. It grows on calcareous soil, pebbles, and hummus in arctic-alpine regions of the northern hemisphere.

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i like to think that the tentacles in dungeon meshi are kinda like mushrooms or perhaps even lichens in that they are very confusing to identifty and have 200 completely different species that look very similar ("delicious brown tentacle vs BROWN DEATH TENDRIL") and you need to be an Expert to determine the difference between some of the more confusing species and some of them have like 300 different sexes and some of them are actually composite creatures composed of several different species and somehow yeast is involved and also no one really knows half of whats going on with them and in like 50 years someones gonna figure out that uhm actually these are two completely different types of tentacle creatures that arent related like at All they jusf happen to look similar and oh btw that one common house mold is actually a tentacle

incredibly obvious statement but it MUST be said. ah to be a lichen or shrub on a mountaintop

And with your help we can make it 60-80%

Diagram of plants based on how well they handle general stress and the apocalypse

(please reblog for sample size! we want a good quality ecological study!!)

do you ever think about how eddie knew he was going to blow up during his breakdown and after frank said it would take out anyone around him as well as himself he started to distance himself from everyone going as far as locking his bedroom door because he didn’t want his son to see him let it all out because his default setting is to always protect others even at the expense of himself or are you normal

was anyone gonna tell me that caduceus’ pink hair is like the feathers of a fuckin flamingo. what sustains that shit. tell me your fucking secrets clay

my little rat sona! he lives on the roof for the thrill of it okay (hes really cold please let him in)

Lepraria jackii 

Lichen or mold? With just a casual glance, Lepraria lichens can look like mold to the untrained eye, so here is your training! Firstly, mold doesn't typically grow on healthy trees. So if you see a smear of white or green on an otherwise healthy looking tree, it is likely not mold. Secondly, if you get close, you will notice that Lepraria lichens like L. jackii are made up of fine or coarse well-delimited granules, often forming soft, random masses. Molds are typically minutely filamentous, often so small and dense that they kinda just blur together. So well delimited grains=lichens. Thirdly, lichens are a lot tougher than mold. Poke L. jackii and you will get some solid granules are your fingers, but the general structure will hold. Poke a mold, it'll fall apart and scrape right off the surface. Lastly, Leprarias and other lichens with green algal photobionts will appear darker green when moist due to the activation of their chlorophyl. Mold doesn't have chlorophyl, and so won't appear more green when moistened. So yeah, you don't have to worry if you see stuff like L. jackii on trees. Unlike molds which are saprotrophs (eat dead stuff), lichens are enclosed autotrophic systems (the photobiont makes food for itself and mycobiont) so they aren't consuming the tree or causing it any harm. In fact lichens are often an indicator of a healthy ecosystem! Hooray lichens!

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My latest project: Another comic. I'm still surprised by the kind of thought which crosses my brain when I'm sitting on a swing... Enjoy!

... I haven't even finished to drain all my previous ideas that I now want to draw a couple of adventures of young Sym...

fireflies on the windowsill

jawbone o'shaughnessy is like if mr rogers had a dark past

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By being with you is such a beautiful song oh my god, it’s like together we make the earth turn and day become night and all of the natural beauty of the world comes from our lives being entwined and I just gotta act normal about that????????

:0 Mushrooms

What species of mushroom do you like

So they are technically mushrooms but maybe not eryone knows that but lichen

I know i cant do them justice like this tho so