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lichenaday · 11 months
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Punctelia reddenda
This gorgeous foliose lichen grows in rosettes up to 6 cm in diameter. The upper surface is gray-green to yellow-green with white, punctiform (point or dot like) pseudocyphella which turn into soralia which produce granular or nodular soredia. The lower surface is black toward the center and lightens to brown near the rounded margins of the overlapping lobes. P. reddenda grows on mossy tree trunks and rock in Africa, Macaronesia, North and South America, and Europe.
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notquitebilateral · 1 year
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Tree lungwort
Lobaria pulmonaria
Eagle River Nature Park, Malakwa, BC
16 Sep 2022
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seabeck · 8 months
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Tiny forest details
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botanyshitposts · 2 years
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thinking about when I TAed for the lichen class at our university and sometimes we’d find two really common lichen species (from the same genus) oozing together so they fused into one lichen with one half being green and the other half being blue or brown or something because they are Soups Of Creatures On A Branch In A Parking Lot and have no regard for what we think a correct organism should act like. may all our boxes be broken and all our rules be challenged etc etc I think
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lycomorpha · 8 months
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Smol reminder 💚🌿
I'm recovering from some medical treatment right now and I'm the worst patient at stopping and resting. So this is as much as note to self, to slow down and look at the lichens 😊
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coprinellus-cluster · 9 months
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coral lichen, also known as lace lichen (Pulchrocladia retipora) in an alpine bog
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mycoblogg · 6 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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spectralrxbbit · 1 year
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lichenomphalia umbrellifera. these are one of my favorite mushrooms so i was very excited to find this many in one place yesterday
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trashpandas3k · 29 days
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Lichens, Ealing, UK
photograph by Victoria Williams
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lionfloss · 11 months
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tobbogan-13 · 6 months
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Mycology is so fucking cool
fungi? more like fun guy
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look at the mushrooms!!!!!!!!
yeast is fucking awesome
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lichen!!!!
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dont even get me started on mold I live this shit so much (not like, yaknow in my house or on my food, but mold is cool)
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lichenaday · 1 year
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Parmelia barrenoae
This foliose lichen has a rosette-forming thallus up to 10 cm in diameter made up of overlapping, linear, round-tipped lobes. The upper surface is gray-green, and pitted and cracked with a fine network of white pseudocyphellae which can produce granular soredia when eroded. The lower surface is black and covered in black, simple or forked rhizines. It is incredibly difficult to distinguish from sister-species P. sulcata and so its distribution is difficult to pinpoint, but it has been thus far recorded in North America, Europe, Africa, and . It grows on trees and occasionally mossy rocks in sheltered, unpolluted woodlands.
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tom-at-the-farm · 1 year
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Several species of lichen casually colonizing a metal pole, which is hardcore
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seabeck · 3 months
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Lichen mushrooms
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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.
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lycomorpha · 2 years
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Lichen community on log, part of old shed by Richard Droker Via Flickr:
My lichen photos by genus - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections/7215762439... my photos arranged by subject, e.g. mountains - www.flickr.com/photos/29750062@N06/collections
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