Lichens 2024

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• DaveGreig Posts: 189

  1 March

  I saw the one in the second pic on a drystone wall today in west Fife. I have another type in my garden on degrading sandstone. It’s like lots of slender silver trumpets about 1” high.
  Fascinating stuff.

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  1 March

  Many types on one tree
  

  
  

  

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• LunarSea Posts: 1,923

  1 March edited 1 March

  I feel almost guilty for not appreciating lichens for many years. For me it took a born-again photographic eye for my fascination to be restored.
  
  It always amazes me to think that whilst they have their own unique identity they are not a single organism but a symbiotic association between a fungus and an alga. A photosynthetic fungus if you like. I was quite surprised to find that their scientific classification puts them in the Ascomycetes phylum, a fungal group which also contains truffles & yeasts. Every day's a school day!

  Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. 
  
  I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
  

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• Papi Jo Posts: 4,254

  3 March edited 3 March

  By unanimous demand of @LunarSea I am re-posting here my recent lichen photos from the Close-up of flowers discussion...

  
  

  

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   #3 Maybe those are fungi, not lichens?
  

  
  

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  #5 Similar to #2
  

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  3 March

  I'm glad that people are appreciating lichens.  

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• Liriodendron Posts: 8,328

  3 March

  Photographed in April 2016, with a very clunky mobile phone camera, lichens (?) growing on a very wet dry-stone wall in west Yorks.  After a single day the fruiting bodies had collapsed.
  
  
  

  Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

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• Papi Jo Posts: 4,254

  4 March

  Liriodendron said:

  Photographed in April 2016, with a very clunky mobile phone camera, lichens (?) growing on a very wet dry-stone wall in west Yorks.  After a single day the fruiting bodies had collapsed.
  
  
  

  I'm not a specialist, but those look more like fungi than lichens to me. Any one knows?
  

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  4 March

  I think that’s the reproductive stage of liverwort … stems with spore-bearing capsules. 

  
  

  https://www.assyntwildlife.org.uk/2021/01/mosses-and-liverworts-an-introduction/
  

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Liriodendron Posts: 8,328

  4 March

  Thank you, @Dovefromabove - you're right, of course - it's a liverwort.  It was an amazing sight, with the white cloud of stems visible from a distance.  But only for one day.

  Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.

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