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My family has just left, had a wonderful time. Will catch up on comments over the next couple of days.

Porosty - Flechte - Lichenes

Chrobotek - Cladonia

Chrobotek strzępiasty??? - Trompetenflechte -(Cladonia fimbriata???

Chrobotek leśny / Chrobotka leśna - Cladonia arbuscula ???

Chrobotek łagodny / Chrobotka łagodna - Cladonia mitis ???

Two lichens Physcia stellaris and Xanthoria parietina

While they were chopping down the evergreens in the car park the other day, they also cut loads of other trees back too. To make it worse they cut back the one tree that I always found loads of lovely lichen on. Oh well, I did at least find a substitute.

Better viewed large and thank you for your favourites. :O)

30,000 Islands, Ontario, Canada

This is for Tan, who CELEBRATES a very important birthday today. Happy Birthday, my friend. Enjoy Peru.

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(012/365) Best viewed Large. I believe these to be Black Tar Lichen (which coats the rock like tar) & Orange Lichen. Found on rocks above the tideline on Baginbun beach.

Of every sort

I take lots of pictures of moss and lichen, but then I don't put them on Flickr because I'm not sure they interest anyone. But I still like these miniature worlds on fenceposts and rocks.

Lecanoromycetes

Xanthoria parietina on a moorland dry-stone wall

( from Wikipedia)

Lichen associations may be examples of mutualism or commensalism, but the lichen relationship can be considered parasitic under circumstances where the partner can exist in nature independently of the other partner..Symbiosis in lichens is so well-balanced that lichens have been considered to be relatively self-contained miniature ecosystems in and of themselves..( better than human?)

Anyone from Tasmania would probably recognise these rocks as being from Bay of Fires, Binalong , Tasmania. There are some awesome photos around of BoF , but I was mesmerised by the rocks themselves. The orange is of course lichen. The name ‘Bay of Fires’ was given by an English explorer, Captain Tobias Furneaux when he sailed past in 1773 and spotted numerous Aboriginal fires along the coast.

We had 40c+ temps here today , in and out of the pool all the day, now we have thunder , lightning and thunderstorms. Love our Aussie weather 😉

Happy weekend everyone 👋

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Lichen pattern on talus slope below I-90 freeway.

Mt Baker-Snoqualmie Nat'l Forest, WA

This handsome specimen was spotted perched on a fence pose as we bounced along a rough road in northern Costa Rica. We backed up and opened a window on the sliding door of the van. Few of the rides we were in had this option, so that was perfect. I was surprised it stayed on the post so long, but I sure appreciated being able to get a couple frames.

I like this one best as it was nicely balanced and shows its left eye. Not obvious without a bit of zooming in, but you can see two fairly substantive tears of the iris (sphincter tears), plus some other damage. One tear goes from edge to edge and causes the pupil to not be round. Perhaps that affects its ability to focus or regulate light normally. I cannot see anything wrong with the surface of the eyeball so I assume it was a congenital deformity or damaged a fair while back.

from bottom up: rock, lichens, razor shells, barnacles ...

Beautiful lichens on an Apple tree in my garden with a Topaz Glow tweak. HSS & HGGT!

Xanthoria parietina, Teloschistaceae

Avec ses têtes rouge mesure environ 4 à 5 mm

Lichen - Minho -Portugal

LRE-4109

I think this may be an African cluster bug which is an invasive species.

Found on the Carrizo Plain

Macro Mondays theme '' Member's Choice : Into the Woods''

Into the woods! Well, not literally… We had more than our share of rain these days and the best I could do was to take a short stroll in one of my favorite parks. Walking around, looking desperately to find something worth taking, this small lichen (perhaps 2” wide) caught my attention. It was perfectly circular and grew on an old wooden fence. It reminded me of a miniature doily. I couldn’t resist and I took the shot.

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La Grande Foye, Poitou-Charentes, France, 14 April 2008

Lecanoromycetes

Lichens are non-parasitic and don’t harm any plants they grow on. In fact, they’re useful to other wildlife, offering nesting material for birds, and food and shelter to lots of invertebrates

good to go

Watermead Park, Leicester UK

Lichen are a symbiotic (some say parasitic) combination of fungus and algae/cyanobacteria. The fungi provide a stable envoronment and essential minerals. The leaflike algea and/or cyanobacteria provide the fungus with sugars via photosynthesis.

One of the photos I took while exploring this week's Macro Mondays theme of 'green'.

Thanks everyone, have a nice day!!!

Mount Rigi, Switzerland

Lichen-moss pine stand covering the dune relief in the Mordovski nature reserve

In some other places there is a lot of lichen on the trees, but here we only got a little bit of it which tends to be more colorful after it rains.