Fungi, Lichens, Moss

Merlin Sheldrake made me do it

[buylookwhatyoumademedo]

Olympic National Park, January 2025

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

Conophytums growing wild in moss!

South Africa, 2025

[seabeck]

Abandoned

[cleverwordsandotherstuffilike]

[fungitopia]

Lovely bunch of Winter Chanterelles

[wild-e-eep]

This entire fence has been pulled out of the ground and rolled up. It's still providing fertile surfaces for some nice lichens and mosses, though. #FencepostOfTheWeek

[mycosprite]

Saffron Powdercap Cystoderma amianthinum

[wild-e-eep]

The underside of this lichen has some textures!

Upper surface: also textures. <3

I think this one is Umbilicaria torrefacta, growing on exposed rocks in a montane environment.

iNaturalist observation 327926461

[orofeaiel]

Trumpet Lichen (Cladonia fimbriata)

[lichenaday]

Nephromopsis platyphylla (syn. Tuckermannopsis platyphylla)

Broad wrinkle lichen

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[lichenaday]

Porpidia hydrophila

I have heard people mistakenly equate leafy lichens with forest life and crustose lichens with desert life, when really there are lots of crustose lichens found in pretty much every terrestrial habitat, including many extremely moist environments (there are also a good number of foliose lichens in deserts but that's another story). For example, P. hydrophila, as you might guess from the name, likes to grow on rocks regularly inundated with freshwater! It can be found on siliceous rock alongside water bodies and in moor/swamp lands. It has a smooth, pale gray and sometimes orange-tinged thallus, and large, black, convex apothecia. It looks very similar to other Porpidia species, but can be distinguished by its unique internal apothecia morphology as well as its hydrophilic tendencies.

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[lindagoesmushrooming]

Mica caps hiding under fallen leaves.

[unusual-suspects]

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[seabeck]

Green

[seabeck]

Webcaps

[mush-womb]

codes

[mycosprite]

Burnt Knight Tricholoma ustale