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Blog 1/3. Se preguntarán por qué les he reunido aquí.

[fuckyeahchinesegarden]

Alpine azaleas on Mount Emei, Sichuan, China, are in full bloom amid misty drizzle. (photos by Joy随手拍, 小艾不做教师了)

[julaibib]

Alhambra, Granada

[honeymuse2002]

[tsukarikata]

幽玄

[midwestemogirlfriend]

[tsukarikata]

幽玄

[lichenaday]

what makes a lichen a lichen? (what makes it different from a moss or other plant?)

Lichen aren't moss or plants, even though the look and act an awful lot like them, in some cases. Lichens are a symbiosis between a fungus (typically an Ascomycete fungi) and a photosynthesizing, unicellular organism (usually either a green algae and/or a cyanobacteria). The fungi (the mycobiont) provides structure and protection, and the photosynthesizers (the photobiont) provide nutrition. Because we think of the mycobiont as the obligate member of the symbiosis, and because it makes up the bulk of the organism, we classify lichens taxonomically based on the mycobiont. So I often describe them jokingly as a fungi that wanted to be a plant so bad that it domesticated a bunch of unicellular organisms to be its chloroplasts. A farmer, if you will.

How do you tell if you are looking at a lichen or a plant? Its easy with a microscope. With that you can see that the internal structure of a lichen is VERY different from a plant. But with the naked eye? Mostly its familiarity. For every rule I can tell you, there exists an exception to that rule. So you kinda just gotta know its a lichen because of the way it is. So you know, get out there and start meeting them!

[alyaly]

Saimyō -Ji Temple 🍁✨

[elli0ttt]

[maureen2musings]

Biei, Hokkaido, Japan

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[pagewoman]

Iford Manor Garden, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, England

baldhiker.com

[loish]

My second favorite thing to draw 🌳

[mayonezli]

[perriaeyjeve]

[myaprilshowers-blog]

[authentic-boredom]

Uwe Langmann

[blooming-lenses]

flood of rhododendrons 2025/05/24

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Stop just asking "is it normal?" and start asking "is it harming anyone?" Lots of harmful things are normalized in this society and lots of things considered weird or rare are completely harmless. Whether something is considered normal or common shouldn't be the deciding factor in whether it's okay

[lifeafterpsychiatry]

Like a lot of disabled and neurodivergent and mentally ill ways of living and expressing yourself are both not normal and not harming anyone and it's the last part we should focus our attention on

[yuri-puppies]

@heterodox-heterographer you've hit the nail in the head

[headspace-hotel]

Thinking statistical norms are moral prescriptions or ideal goods is one of the founding philosophies in a lot of eugenicist thought

[youzhao]

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