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179d

Some cute #mosses on my afternoon walk today. Love how #moss and #lichen cohabitates so happily together. Makes little mosaics on stone, branches, and the trunks of trees.

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Straggly moss and grey lichen on a birch branch.

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1y

A lichen and moss landscape between rocks and pebbles

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Various Cladonia lichens with red or brown fruiting bodies, mealy pixie cups, and haircap moss among rocks and pebbles.
A rock on the left is covered with various crustose lichens.
Blurred green forest in the background.

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1y

Cladonia lichens on a rock after the rain

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Two groups of light beige trumpet-shaped lichens on a dark rock

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1y

#Lichen on the #Lilac in our backyard.

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Grey and yellow lichen on the branches of a lilac bush, with clumps of almost-open lilac flowers in the background.

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1y

Portraits of some of the recent lichens I've met. My guesses as to IDs:

* Flavoparmelia caperata
* A nice moss that looks like asparagus tips, with Xanthoria parietina & physcia adscendens (?) growing through / around it
* Parmotrema, physcia & candelariella
* Caloplaca species

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Looking at the top of a horizontal fence rail, which is covered in layer after layer of grey-green lichen seemingly piled on top of one another. It has wide lobes like leaves, and sections of raised dots like tiny mushrooms

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1y

Some lichen finds, plus (what I think might be) a slime mould

* Various crustose species on the back of a gravestone
* Slime mould (?) that appeared within a few minutes of wetting this old gate beam
* Patterns on lichen on an old wooden seat
* A cladonia species growing amongst moss on an old wooden fence

Edit: Consensus seems to be that it's not a slime mold, but likely a fungus. Still interesting!

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Various splats of lichen on the back of a dark near-black stone gravestone, looking like countries that border each other. Colours include yellow, different greys, charcoal. There's also a grey-green foliose lichen that looks like a many-tentacled octopus

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310d

Trumpet Lichen (Cladonia fimbriata) growing between Haircap moss and stones

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The photo shows a lichen growing on the ground between stones and dry haircap moss.
The lichen consists of tiny green lobes (leaves) at the base, from which small, upright, gray-green, trumpet-shaped podetia (the stems) grow.
The surface of the podetia looks as if it is covered with a granular powder called soredia.
The soredia consist of algae cells and fungal hyphae, a method of reproduction of the lichen when these soredia are spread by e.g. wind.

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313d

A pretty little patch of Xanthoria Parietine #lichen. I think I'm growing a little Shrek in my garden.

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A patch of yellow and green lichen with little fabric-like parts and cup-shaped protrusions. On Grey bricks.

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157d

Some lichen patterns. I particularly like how #3 and its 3D, overlapping lobes turned out, but then #4 has lovely shapes and colours. I like #2's demilitarised zones between colonies. And then #1's yellow blobs on black and white is pretty cool too. I guess they're all my favourite...

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