#bristly tropical cups

[thebashfulbotanist]

I love weird fungi, and these fungi, Cookeina tricholoma, are pretty weird. They're often called bristly tropical cups or hongo de copa rosada in Spanish, which is the name you'd probably hear where I found these, in Jalisco, Mexico. They were more orange than pink, though!

[lichenaday]

Parmotrema crinitum

Salted ruffle lichen

Apparently this lichen has the nickname "Desperate Dan," due to its bristly appearance. I do not know who Desperate Dan is--ok I do now since I did a google--but I think more lichens need human nicknames. So I can be like "this is my pal Dan." This foliose lichen has wide, leafy lobes with a wavy margin and long, black, marginal cilia. It produces lobulate or coraloid isidia which often have their own stubby cilia, adding to P. crinitum's 5-o'clock shadow. The upper surface is gray to green-gray, often with brown or blackened patches. The lower surface is black and rhizinate toward the center of the lobes, and naked and brown toward the margins. Dan has short-stalked, saucer or cup-shaped apothecia with a perforated, brown disk and a isidiate margin. P. crinitum grows on mossy hardwoods (and occasionally on mossy rocks and soil) in old-growth forests and open habitats in moist tropical and temperate regions. Way to go, Dan.

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