#lichens are so good

[lichenaday]

Catolechia wahlenbergii

Wahlenberg's goblin lights lichen

"Goblin lights lichen core" could totally be a spotify playlist. Have you ever made a playlist based off of a lichen? Well consider this your sign to do so. This little beauty has a squamulose or crustose-placodioid thallus that grows in thick, bright yellow-green patches on acidic, humus-rich soil and bryophytes (often in the cracks of siliceous rocks). It is wrinkled and puckered in texture, and the upper surface often has brown patches and tiny yellow crystals. It has a black lower surface and black prothallus, and is attached to the substrate by numerous black rhizoids. It produces round or crenulate apothecia which are black, sessile, and convex. C. wahlenbergii can be found in humid, arctic-alpine habitats in the northern hemisphere.

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[filurig]

lichen

[korrasamibottles]

And with your help we can make it 60-80%

[tigrensis]

Absolutely not convinced by using felt instead of the lichens. I think I'm going to go back to the drawing board for the shoulder sections

[firelightfoxes]

happy birthday lichen 😂

[spookberry]

A werewolf

[magikmaelstrom]

@rockstonewizard I need a fire mana stone. I will give you this rock in exchange.

trust me, it's for a good cause.

[babblingbat]

This is for science; I want to know how many people know what moss is!

Please reblog when you vote and indicate your reasoning in the tags or comments! I'm trying to see what a good avenue for outreach would be.

[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

[lichenaday]

Phaeophyscia decolor 

Starburst shadow lichen

I highly recommend looking at lichens after a rain storm. Many like P. decolor here really change their hue when the photobiont cells inside become hydrated and active. This foliose lichen grows in wreath-like patches up to 4 cm in diameter, with linear lobes radiating from a center of sparse to numerous lobules which erode away with age. The upper surface is gray to gray-brown when dry and olive-green when wet, whereas the lover surface is black with simple black rhizines. It produces sessile (sitting atop of the surface) apothecia which have a prominent (sometimes lobulate or rhizinate) margin and a flat, black disc. P. decolor grows on rock and moss in North America, Europe, and eastern Asia. If you don't get a lot of rain where you live, you can also just, you know, spray the lichens with some water. They probably won't know the difference.

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[transmogrified-in-the-void]

It's v v v funny to me that irl I am Very Easily Flustered and Other Things but when its not that my brain is like 'ok ok ok so. to compensate. smug confidence at doing that to andrew. now.' and its SO FUCKING FUNNY

[enlichened]

Feeling an urge 2 change my url. But could be convinced otherwise

[buggybestfriend]

augh i am craving palmiers now

[bugintheruins]

im gonna stay up till 4 to finish this

[known-petrichor-enjoyer]

in love w tiny displays of humanity; bus drivers waving at each other, sharing an umbrella with an arm around your friend, walking barefoot in the rain, etc

[floralstorms]

Ah so I’m finally nearing burnout again is that it

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on a different note algae is so interestingggg like that’s apparently a protist? And it’s ancient and only growing more with the fertilizers and also did you know that apparently lichen has some algae in it moss and lichen and algae is so interesting like… it’s There. And then Spanish moss I need to look into that like how does that work?? And then also like carnivorous plants are so interesting apparently some can photosynthesize??? and not all plants are exactly autotrophs contrary to what is really widely taught and that’s so interesting?????