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lichenaday · 1 day

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Lecanora intricata

Lichens have a few different ways to reproduce (they're just awesome like that) but most lichen symbioses include an ascomycete fungi, AKA a sac fungi. These fungi create spores in internal sacs known as asci (singular: ascus), and lichenized ascomycetes often house these sacs in their apothecia, or fruiting bodies. So you see those dark spots on the surface of our pal L. intricata here? Those are its apothecia, or its fruiting bodies, from which fungal spores will be ejected to go out and hopefully form their own little lichens someday. Pretty neat, huh? L. intricata is a crustose lichen with a verrucose (wart-like)-areolate (tile-like) thallus. It has a gray-green to yellow-green surface sitting atop a dark prothallus (a layer of fungal hyphae). It should look something like puzzle-pieces on a dark surface. It has blackish-green to brown, irregularly shaped apothecia immersed in the thallus surface. L. intricata grows on silicious rock and occasionally wood in montane, boreal, and arctic habitats.

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jbbartram-illu · 10 months

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Made some statement pendants. The statement? I LOVE LICHENS.

#artblog #ceramicsculpture #ceramicart #handbuiltceramics #handbuiltsculpture #pottery #clay #stoneware #sculpting #sculpture #handbuilding #ceramic #ceramics #lichen #i'm lichen it

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mycoblogg · 7 months

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Whats the difference between lichen, moss, mould and mushrooms if they're all fungus? Aren't they all the same sorta thing?

so, interestingly, all of these groups are very different !! instead of naming the differences, let me quickly explain what exactly these organisms are.

lichen :

lichens are symbiotic organisms, meaning they are in themselves the product of a relationship between different organisms. to simplify it, lichens are big part fungus, & smaller part algae (protista) or cyanobacteria (monera). these different forms of life together create lichen, which grows on trees, rocks, leaves, mosses & sometimes other lichens !! to read more about lichens, check out @/lichenaday's blog :-)

moss :

mosses are actually not fungi at all !! they are small, flowerless plants. they grow on trees & in soil. :-)

mould :

mould is a type of structure that fungi can form - it is entirely fungal. it reproduces through airborne spores :-) there are many different types of mould ; some are toxic, some are used medicinally, & some are saprotrophs. (note : slime moulds & water moulds are unrelated to fungal moulds !!)

mushrooms :

so, lots of people think mushrooms are a species of fungus, but they are not. "mushroom" refers to the fruiting body of a fungus ; what a mushroom is to a fungus is comparable to what a flower is to a tree - the part that reproduces !! not all fungi produce mushrooms (e.g. moulds, which do not have fruiting bodies as the entire organism is able to release spores). there are currently only 14 000 discovered fungi that produce mushrooms !! more fungi that don't produce mushrooms include mildew, yeast & lichen.

so, yes !! they're all quite different in structure, cells & function in the ecosystem.

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opalescentorchidaceae · 8 months

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Lichen is so fucked up and romantic to me. What if you protected me from the world by consuming me whole and making me a part of yourself. What if I kept you alive by providing the sustenance you've long since forgotten how to get on your own. What if we became so entangled that it took scientists hundreds of years to discover that we were separate organisms.

#in this scenario you're a fungus and i'm an algae or perhaps a cyanobacteria #lichen #romance #tag your otp

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cannibalhellhound · 1 month

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✨It's finished✨🦭

I love how disturbing leopard seals are to people.

In my opinion, they're amazing and I love them.

Now, for my Selkie au stuff >:D

Ice is a leopard seal because 1. I love them 2. He loves biting people and makes it other people's problem 3. His Iceman glare will freeze your soul (both in seal and human shape) and make you feel like you're nearing death.

#leopard seal #selkie au #HelloI'mHayden #I'm having a blast doing this #*waters brain lichen*#i regret nothing about the amount of AUs I'm making #Selkie Ice

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eliounora · 2 years

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tiny wip of some elves...

#the redneck elves....#nor's rambles #i'm so proud of my legolas design though! peak design from me. it's all downhill from here abdjkfnsf #ok i kinda like thranduil too. he has a cape of LICHEN

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firelightfoxes · 8 months

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#i'm curious bc Lichen automatically understands when i point but Ava does not #Ava only started to vaguely understand pointing when i taught her targets #dogblr #poll

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mountainmoth · 1 year

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So my friend introduced me to the wonders of photographing lichens and mosses like they themselves are landscapes.

I'm so obsessed man. Gunna photograph everything like this

#queue #mushroom #lichens #it's so pretty man #it's so gorgeous #I'm so in love #mosscore #fairycore #goblincore #nature #moss

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lunasilvis · 24 days

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Hey it's me, losing my stuff over moss + mud + funghi

#personal #Morning hike #Dreary weather never killed anyone (but my phone's camera quality) so let's go #Came across reindeer moss on my hike + peat moss + so much pretty lichen on tree bark!#I'm super fulfilled #(Why is star moss (sterrenmos in my language) called swan's neck thyme moss in english? don't got time for ur tea + biscuits #I mean... that's clearly moss shaped like little green emerald colored stars)#Had a salmon bagel + cappuccino after ☕️#nature #Schoorl forest

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tigrensis · 5 months

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Major Project: Stanpipe

I started creating my next LARP character, Stanpipe, in late 2021. He has had plenty of time to develop and be refined as my current character seems to be immune to death (I've been playing them for almost six years at this point). Stanpipe began as a thought, ‘I want to play a healer’, and has slowly been refined into the horrible little mushroom man he is today.

The costume, like the character, has gone through multiple iterations. I started by making a generic blanket cape, I hadn’t decided on the decay theme yet and instead, I was working on something simple to keep me warm at night. I embroidered dark blue blanket stitches around the edge and some beads on the edge worn around the neck. I also added some lavender embroidery to the front. I wanted to look non-threatening, I'm not a big fan of combat so I went with a softer look initially.

After a while I started to develop the idea of a mushroom-themed character, at events, I saw a lot of people making characters with mushroom aesthetics. These people were often going down the route of cute fey characters with fly agaric themed clothing. I like these costumes but they don’t appeal to me as something I'd wear. I’m not interested in representations of mushrooms that remove them from their context of decay and rot. I’m much more interested in a darker interpretation of a mushroom character. I have also completely flipped on the idea of looking non-threatening, I want to look scary, I want people to be nervous when I come to heal them, and I want to have fun whilst I'm doing it.

I settled on a core concept of a character who had once been a fey but had taken a nap in a forest one day. A few thousand years later he woke up, to find that he had been partially consumed by mushrooms, he had decayed whilst staying alive. There's a lot more I want to say about decay and how it relates to my identity and experiences. I would much rather give those thoughts a separate place to breathe.

The question of whether Stanpipe is the mushrooms, the original fey, or a mixture of both will never be answered. I want to leave this ambiguous for multiple reasons. The main reason is that there's no sense in having an overly written backstory as it does not impact what happens in the game, it can also be difficult to keep track of. Instead, I have a few key facts for my characters that I use to inform their actions and reactions.

My key facts for Stanpipe are:

He was a fey farmer in ancient history

He took a nap one day

He woke up like this

He knows nothing about anything

To match my costume to my character I ended up altering a straw boater and my already made blanket cloak. I used dried lichens that I had gathered after a storm to alter the hat and make it look taken over by nature. I'm still very happy with the hat and I’m looking forward to wearing it in character.

My blanket cloak I am less happy with my, I started by painting lichens onto the blanket using a mix of acrylic paints. I experimented a lot with texture and colour to varying degrees of success. Some of the lichens are too bright and I need to darken them in the future.

I also used real lichens on the shoulders with mushrooms sculpted out of clay. It looks nice in pictures but I quickly found that the lichens, which were living in this case, were difficult to maintain and would be extremely fragile when worn. This fragility would be made even worse by the fact that the LARP I attend is a boffer system meaning that I’d need to be able to move quickly and take hits. For now, I’ve decided to take off the lichens and mushrooms and will re-use them on other, more stable, projects.

To complete this costume there are still a few things left to do, I need to make shirts and trousers. The trousers are almost complete, they just need a waistband (I think I’ll turn the trousers into a separate post because I like them so much). Normally I would use one of the shirts I already own but because Stanpipe is decay-themed I want to be able to break down the shirts and make them look old and rotted. I wouldn’t want to do that to something that wasn’t built for it. It also means that I can make them look however I want, it can be hard sometimes to find a LARP kit that fits me well so I don’t want to buy something that does and then restrict it to being used by just one character.

I’m also starting on making some vests for the character to wear which I am going to go for it with the breakdown. One will be made of scuba suede which is a thick stretchy synthetic fabric with a pile. The other will be knitted from alpaca wool and will have tufts of felting wool knitted into it as I go, the goal is to create a mossy appearance. I’m going to be experimenting with growing plant life on them to see what sort of damage the root system does. I'm expecting some sort of staining at the least however I am currently sceptical about whether any damage will occur to the scuba suede because of how thick it is.

Here are some work-in-progress images from the trousers and the vests.

#First proper post hope you don't mind me rambling about my character for a bit. very excited to eventually finish this one but i'm not #going to rush it #costume design #larp #larp character #larp oc #larp stuff #knitting #sewing #fibre arts #lichens #mushrooms #embroidery #costume #Larp costume #trans artist #queer artist #lgbtq artist

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babblingbat · 1 year

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This is for science; I want to know how many people know what moss is!

Please reblog when you vote and indicate your reasoning in the tags or comments! I'm trying to see what a good avenue for outreach would be.

#moss #bryophytes #botany #plants #lichens #fern allies #lycophytes #peat moss #sphagnum #listen I love moss and I love science communication and I'm sad that an awesome bryologist died recently #so I've decided to make an infographic about moss #but I need to know what is good and useful to put on it #rip Nancy Guttmann Slack #coolest old lady of all time #mine

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lichenaday · 26 days

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Xanthoria calcicola

This foliose lichen grows on calcareous rock and stone work (and occasionally dusty trees) in eutrophic, well-lit, mild-temperate and costal regions of Europe and the Mediterranean. It has a yellow-orange to dark orange foliose thallus forming pleated lobes growing in large rosettes up to 20 cm in diameter. The center of the rosettes are covered in knobbly warts and granular isidia, and it only rarely produces apothecia. The presence of these isidia and the lack of apothecia is the best way to distinguish this lichen from the very similar looking X. parietina which is a lot more common and often grows on bark.

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yet-another-haven-of-dollya · 4 months

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I cannot 😭😭 I went down the lake to get lichen. And then I got attacked by ivory like how? This is like day 2 of the game 😭 I didn't even touched the necklace

That's what we call a free.99 trial honey

#dollya ask #I'm so used to introducing this game to my curious friend I always told them to leave their clothes before going down the lake for lichen

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svogliata-mente · 4 months

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santa lucia save me santa lucia save me santa lucia

#I can't fucking concetrate kill meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee #I'm so sick of studying i want to vegetate. why was i not born a lichen

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fluentisonus · 1 year

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the south 🤝 the west coast

this particular vibe

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#was going to say lichens but I'm only finding out now spanish moss is a plant & not a lichen in fact #anyways whenever I see pictures of trees covered in Spanish moss in the south I'm like hey same hat!!!#thoughts

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pockethexapod · 1 year

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My 2nd OC for Funguary! (Pixie Cup Lichen & Cyanobacteria)

Just as regular lichen is born from the union of fungus and algae, Laicha became a healer after becoming one with her people’s guardian spirits. A straw has been placed in the healing dew atop her head for the benefit of Bayan, a wandering swordsman from a far-off kingdom who suffers constant injury for the sake of Laicha’s protection. Together they travel land and sea, undoing evil and injustice wherever they find it.

#funguary #funguary 2023 #pixie cup lichen #artists on tumblr #mushroom #fungus #lichen #cyanobacteria #oc #my art #innocent art post or insidious show pitch? you decide #i'm going to try to stick to the weird element of this week from now on #but these two had to escape containment somehow

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