#lichen a day

[lichenaday]

Phaeophyscia squarrosa

Scaly shadow lichen

Using this lichen for my regular reminder that lichens are NOT plants. Lichens are an association between an obligate fungal host (mycobiont) and one or more photosynthesizing partners (a green algae and/or a cyanobacteria). It is a fungus using unicellular organisms that photosynthesize so it can cosplay as a plant.

images: source | source

[darks-lair]

I am trying to boost my drawing motivation lately, so, I will try to participate in funguary this time

Day 2

My take on pixie cup lichen

I decided to name that weird cute girl Pixie. I love her so much already

A few words about her character:

A little bit of an overthinker (looking for connections where there are none)

Waterbender! You have to be a special little mushroom in order to be a waterbender! (+a reference to how real life lichens love water)

Has great empathy and generally it's very pleasant to be around her

Likes to keep her room very little illuminated, doesn't like to be in the sun in general

What do y'all think?

[mycoblogg]

FOTD #117 : bowl lichen! (psoroma genus)

the bowl lichens are lichenised fungi belonging to the family pannariaceae. they occur across the world & are often found in south temperate regions :-) these lichen typically grow in association with mosses on a variety of substrates !! there is little else currently known about them.

the big question : can i bite it?? i could not find any information on this, but this lichen is not listed as poisonous anywhere on the internet currently.

[images : source & source] [fungus description : i could not find one !! :-/]

[moths-daily]

Moth Of The Day #34

Lichen Button Moth

Acleris literana

From the totricidae family. They have a wingspan of 18-22 mm. They tend to inhabit gardens and woodland, as well as similar places with Oak trees. It is found throughout most of Europe.

[mossappreciator]

september 29, 2023

[firelightfoxes]

FINALLY back home!! here's a lil summary of how we did:

day 1 - 8/19 - second place in her class (12-18mo bitches). went up for RWB but no love unfortunately!

day 2 - 8/20 - fourth in her class

day 3 - 8/21 - fourth in her class again

she showed amazingly on her first day but on the second day, when she was on the ramp, another handler backed into the ramp and almost elbowed her in the face and that kinda ruined her vibe. so she didn't stand very well for her exam on day 2 or day 3. but like!! we drove 17ish hours and were staying in a (very scary) hotel and i was stressed constantly so i definitely wasn't expecting her to be at her best, and that's okay! i'm happy that we got out there and helped represent the breed :)

[noseysilverfox]

Microcosm

[laceratedlamiaceae]

I think if Izzy had gotten a chance to just sit down on a log and look at some trees and moss everything would have been different

[oldmossyletters]

[sluttyquarantinetheory]

[lichenaday]

Xanthoria calcicola

This foliose lichen grows on calcareous rock and stone work (and occasionally dusty trees) in eutrophic, well-lit, mild-temperate and costal regions of Europe and the Mediterranean. It has a yellow-orange to dark orange foliose thallus forming pleated lobes growing in large rosettes up to 20 cm in diameter. The center of the rosettes are covered in knobbly warts and granular isidia, and it only rarely produces apothecia. The presence of these isidia and the lack of apothecia is the best way to distinguish this lichen from the very similar looking X. parietina which is a lot more common and often grows on bark.

images: source | source

info: source | source | source

[ooksaidthelibrarian]

lichen, moss and mushrooms hiding in a tree stump

May 2023

[phoradendron]

Some results of my earlier adventures with natural dyes. These are dyed with blue elderberry; I had read how red and black elderberry are not very light- or colorfast, but I dyed these two or three months ago and they are doing well! Could be chance, but maybe blue elderberry is more colorfast?

I want to try changing the PH in the future for more colors. These are alum mordanted wool embroidery thread, one is undyed the other is white. In the first photo, the fibers that were originally white are on the top, undyed on the bottom, and the one weirdo off to the side was white and went in late when I decided there was more room in the jar.

No heat added to the dye bath to keep the colors brighter. I prepared it by crushing the berries, adding just enough water to cover the plant matter, leaving them overnight, crushing again and straining out the plant matter, then left the mordanted fibers in for three days; very simple. Washed thoroughly, dried in the window lol.

The white fibers became a sort of soft raspberry color, the undyed became a sort of rose gold. The weirdo is a sort of Pepto Bismal color? To be poetic

[mycoblogg]

FOTD #021 : pixie cup lichen! (cladonia asahinae)

pixie cup lichen (AKA asahina's cup lichen) is a cup lichen in the family cladoniaceae. it primarily grows on moss !! this lichen occurs in europe, north america, the southernmost area of south america & even the antarctic.

the big question : can i bite it?? as with most lichens, pixie cups are inedible.

c. asahinae description :

"pixie cup lichen are small funnel-shaped cups & grow about 2.5 cm (1 inch) high. they are light green."

[images : source & source] [fungus description : source + own observation, due to lack of resources]

"one of my favourite fungi ever !! i genuinely love these little cups so much. i was so happy when i found out that lichen fall into the kingdom of fungi :-)"

[idlesuperstar]

Kilvickeon Beach, Mull, April ‘23

[gaynaturalistghost]

What if the Ascomycete elder god was just a lil’ lichen guy. A littol boy. What if I misidentified the lichen I collected and based his hat on so how’s it’s just a vague *parmelia*. Which is ok. It’s fine. I misidentified it bc the inside was the color of a cheeto.

Anyway his horns are *Cladonia sp.* and the ones around his face are *Niebla sp.*