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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 18h

This #lichen also on the same garden bush #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 2d

This is what I imagine I look like when taking photos.

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 2d

I have a bush in my garden that is absolutely over run with #lichen in winter and early spring the lichen is on full display. One in particular,Thin branched light blue/green lobes loosely connected to the substrate square-ish/blunt ends long black tipped eyelashes (cilia) I’m Nausicaa #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 3d

Hi Geoffrey, so definitely Ramalina but I struggle differentiating between R. ovalis, R. celastri and R. glaucasens. They’re all here in NZ’s South Island. Probably more. I can see the differences between them in the wild but when I read descriptions I get confused.

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 4d

This #lichen tricky. There a number of possibilities to choose from here in South Island and when I read their descriptions it isn’t easy to separate one from the other. Especially when the photo examples don’t look like the descriptions : / The differentiation my new pet project #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 5d

This #lichen in a tree large fat swollen black apothecia looking like the back a of wingless muscle bound flies emerging from a white crusty thallus sharing space with white rimmed pink apothecia which reminds me of a jam tart. Guess that’s why the flies #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 6d

This #lichen another foliose garden resident. Displays white pseudocyphellae on a pale green (the colour of my grandmother’s 50’s/60’s kitchen cupboards) thallus. Sorediate ruffles on broad lobes light brown underside. A close up without a zoom out. Forgot the bigger picture #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 6d

… as this is a coastal lichen also known as ‘Maritime Sunburst Lichen’

lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 6d

Hi Geoffrey. Agree with your ID. It thrives here. We are very close to the Pacific Ocean. The salinity here rusts our cars and tin roofs (the internet tells me that ‘rooves’ is archaic - have I lived that long! 😢) faster than inland. I think you can look at this picture and think good thoughts …

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you Geoffrey. Feel a little more confident with your confirmation. Still not sure about adding it to my cooking quite yet. : )

lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 8d

This #lichen has found a home on one of my bushes. Yellow cups like satellite dishes firing off copies of itself into the ulu #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 9d

This #lichen in my garden has tiny red smaller than a pin head sized cherries. Not apothecia though these are wee spider mites #FungiFriends they turn up in a lot of my photos. Still in my garden.

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 10d

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 10d

This #lichen featured in previous two posts Corticolous Ruffled lobes Black hair-like cilia and Soralia on margins Brown underside Dark rhizines visible closer to centre underside Think this type might be used as flavour in some Indian dishes Yum If only I could trust my identification #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 12d

his #lichen a close-up of the previous. A white crustose lichen with coffee coloured apothecia. White thaline rimmed. Looking like a sweetshop delicacy. Touching borders with ruffled blue green lobes sporting dark hair-like cilia. #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 13d

Back in my garden. These #lichen quite familiar now to me. When you start looking you don’t realise that you are beginning a years long relationship where you return again and again to see how they are getting along. These photos taken at the tail of winter. #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 14d

This #lichen an ‘… and finally.’ Saving the best till last a substrate; the perspex cover from a substitutes shelter by the side of a football pitch. Seemingly dynamic. you think the larger is throwing out the smaller from its mass imperceptibly the offspring slide across the perspex #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 14d

This #lichen looking great #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 16d

…A bit of a segue. I am watching political developments overseas and I feel we are in troubled not interesting times. I feel helpless. I think of the Doctor in Albert Camus’ book The Plague. It all seemed to start around then The plague The rats Wishing you well in your perseverance through this rot

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 16d

Zoom to see the salty crust patches but also what looks like a blight. Dark black green wet. Is it another organism muscling in - too much life? Or is it a death? Or is it the natural growth of this particular lichen? For me, only time will reveal that is if the groundsman allows it to remain here.

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 16d

ThePerspex Substitute’s shelter beside an Astroturf football field (‘soccer’ field for our brothers and sisters overseas) is home to this #lichen also Different from the others It’s lobes thinner though manner the same and on its surface what looks like patches of a salty crust #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 17d

This #lichen like a #Hokusai cloud #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 17d

This #lichen also using the sub’s shelter, on the side of the football pitch, as substrate. With such a smooth surface to latch to without impediment, it is granted the ability to show full flare and do its best shield lichen display #FungiFriend

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 18d

I am beside the football pitch. This #lichen joins three other types establishing themselves on the see through Perspex shelter of the subs bench. Very tiny only just begun. There are others here much bigger #FungiFriends

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lllichen.bsky.social @lllichen.bsky.social · 20d

Zoom Out a little to appreciate the work it has put in to looking so fine

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