#tree lungwort

[michaelnordeman]

Tree lungwort/lunglav. Lungälvsravinerna nature reserve in Brattfors, Värmland, Sweden (May 4, 2024).

[unfathomablylargekiwi]

Found this gorgeous mushroom book and say this fungus and thought of you

Sorry you can't see much of the smaller text 😔

Ooo I moss say I'm lichen that. I love that book, I've never seen it before but just bc of the talk about how people probably just like it for moonshine and then the sudden flip towards talking about potions and alchemy

[faerylaw]

Faërie Lichen

There is a lichen – Lobaria pulmonaria – also known as ‘Tree Lungwort’ – which lives in the depths of the forest. It needs mature trees to establish itself and damp conditions away from drying winds, so small woodlands are of no use to it. It is rare because the habitat it needs is also rare. She is a faërie thing. Old, mysterious and of a time that is passing. Yet she lingers in the dark woodland whispering her spells when the moonlight filters down through the trees.

Can such things be found in the town, in a cul-de-sac or in the quiet corner of a park? Perhaps, but she would bid you follow her to where greenthinks are the thoughts that matter. To a place where such a lichen or a rare liverwort that needs the rotting trunks of dead trees to live its life, or other such green things can have their existence. Where water trickles through moss and filmy ferns to a moonlit stream. Moonthinks to the green things;  To the old world which is still ever young; To the realm of Faery.

[seabeck]

Lichen

[mostlythemarsh]

Coming Out

[6ickly]

[blogbirdfeather]

Tree Lungwort - Pulmonária (Lobaria pulmonaria)

Trancoso/Portugal (8/11/2019)

[Nikon D500; ∑150mm F2.8 EX DG OS HSM APO Macro with Flash Nissin Di 700A; 1/250s; F14; 400 ISO]

[thesingingbullfrog]

Lobaria Pulmonaria -excuse me while I geek out a little, but tree lungwort is some cool shit! It is actually a  symbiosis of three organisms living together. An ascomycete fungus and a green algal partner living together in a symbiotic relationship with a cyanobacterium. It does not hurt the tree it’s living on and is an indicator of good air quality because it is so sensitive to pollution.