@lllichen.bsky.social
New Zealand based.
I find lichen beautiful.
Important you know that I am trying to learn by walking a very long road - happy to be educated and/or corrected
Current focus is lichen that I find around me without looking too hard. My everyday lichen
I find lichen beautiful.
Important you know that I am trying to learn by walking a very long road - happy to be educated and/or corrected
Current focus is lichen that I find around me without looking too hard. My everyday lichen
More of this #lichen behind the tennis courts. I have started to see this type (Ramalina sp.) hanging out a lot with what I think is a teloschites sp. and i got the fanciful idea that there might be some sort of cross over. I’ll see if I can find a pic and post next to illustrate #FungiFriends
November 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
More of this #lichen behind the tennis courts. I have started to see this type (Ramalina sp.) hanging out a lot with what I think is a teloschites sp. and i got the fanciful idea that there might be some sort of cross over. I’ll see if I can find a pic and post next to illustrate #FungiFriends
This #lichen on a native tree not certain which as didn’t photograph the leaves (foolish 😅) I’ve circled the tennis courts. There is a secret field here then bush rising up steeply. The sunlight gets in but the field holds water well. In the morning it is dew heavy and sun bathed #FunguFriends
November 8, 2025 at 6:30 AM
This #lichen on a native tree not certain which as didn’t photograph the leaves (foolish 😅) I’ve circled the tennis courts. There is a secret field here then bush rising up steeply. The sunlight gets in but the field holds water well. In the morning it is dew heavy and sun bathed #FunguFriends
These #lichen lignicolous and numerous. Lecanora sp. must be present but how many? #FungiFriends
November 7, 2025 at 1:35 AM
These #lichen lignicolous and numerous. Lecanora sp. must be present but how many? #FungiFriends
This #lichen wriggling reaching farinose-sorediate podetia tapering to a point, minuscule brown/red apothecia, pale yellow to light green tip to base squamulous at base. On a railway sleeper that borders a garden in a car park #FungiFriends
November 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM
This #lichen wriggling reaching farinose-sorediate podetia tapering to a point, minuscule brown/red apothecia, pale yellow to light green tip to base squamulous at base. On a railway sleeper that borders a garden in a car park #FungiFriends
This #lichen in the same location. The tennis courts’ car park. I pass by here when I walk my dog and this area calls to me over and over. So far, I keep finding new images worth taking. Same lichen types though #FungiFriend
November 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
This #lichen in the same location. The tennis courts’ car park. I pass by here when I walk my dog and this area calls to me over and over. So far, I keep finding new images worth taking. Same lichen types though #FungiFriend
This #lichen also hiding in the cracks of railway sleepers that border the tidy gardens that delimit the tennis club’s car park #FungiFriends
November 1, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This #lichen also hiding in the cracks of railway sleepers that border the tidy gardens that delimit the tennis club’s car park #FungiFriends
Not far from the white post, I am back in the tennis club’s car park. Where this #lichen hides in the shaded cracks of railway sleepers. Like a zombie from a grave, one eyeball watches as a bony hand waves #FungiFriends
October 31, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Not far from the white post, I am back in the tennis club’s car park. Where this #lichen hides in the shaded cracks of railway sleepers. Like a zombie from a grave, one eyeball watches as a bony hand waves #FungiFriends
This #lichen foliose. Long lobes (white crusty patina) long cilia (white merging to black points) black dots (potentially pycnidia??) in places the lobes burst open and the insides are exposed. All on a pebble dashed cement curb stone #FungiFriends
October 30, 2025 at 6:18 AM
This #lichen foliose. Long lobes (white crusty patina) long cilia (white merging to black points) black dots (potentially pycnidia??) in places the lobes burst open and the insides are exposed. All on a pebble dashed cement curb stone #FungiFriends
These #lichen herald spring from a white wooden sign post #FungiFriends
October 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
These #lichen herald spring from a white wooden sign post #FungiFriends
This #lichen on a white sign post near the tennis courts. We have our usuals hanging out. But if you look closer you will see a lot going on here #FungiFriends
October 27, 2025 at 11:37 PM
This #lichen on a white sign post near the tennis courts. We have our usuals hanging out. But if you look closer you will see a lot going on here #FungiFriends
Well, this #lichen! It’s base looking very much like one distinct lichen yet its ends looking quite like another!! Almost as if one was hiding inside another just waiting for the right conditions before bursting forth #FungiFriends
October 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Well, this #lichen! It’s base looking very much like one distinct lichen yet its ends looking quite like another!! Almost as if one was hiding inside another just waiting for the right conditions before bursting forth #FungiFriends
This #lichen a strap of blue green thallus thin flat wide. A Width narrowing at ends like a tendon where it might attach to bone. Gravity pulls this lichen straight down. The free end twisting about in search of a finish Bespeckled&crowded with satellite dish apothecia of varying sizes #FungiFriends
October 25, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This #lichen a strap of blue green thallus thin flat wide. A Width narrowing at ends like a tendon where it might attach to bone. Gravity pulls this lichen straight down. The free end twisting about in search of a finish Bespeckled&crowded with satellite dish apothecia of varying sizes #FungiFriends
These #lichen looking great on my fruit trees #FungiFriends
October 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
These #lichen looking great on my fruit trees #FungiFriends
This #lichen was photographed in spring. I have a backlog of images, everyday lichen, to work through. These lichen dare me to name them and I walk backwards with my hand outstretched and say no, no! I do not dare name you. One day maybe. I have an inkling #FungiFriends but I am a coward
October 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
This #lichen was photographed in spring. I have a backlog of images, everyday lichen, to work through. These lichen dare me to name them and I walk backwards with my hand outstretched and say no, no! I do not dare name you. One day maybe. I have an inkling #FungiFriends but I am a coward
This #lichen on my cherry tree corticolous (on bark) foliose (leafy) rosette (prizewinning) thallus (main body) punctate, pseudocyphellae (sprinkled with stardust) on laminal (upper surface) brown underside. Lobes (round leafy bits) overlapping and more centrally sorediate on margins #FungiFriends
October 18, 2025 at 5:25 AM
This #lichen on my cherry tree corticolous (on bark) foliose (leafy) rosette (prizewinning) thallus (main body) punctate, pseudocyphellae (sprinkled with stardust) on laminal (upper surface) brown underside. Lobes (round leafy bits) overlapping and more centrally sorediate on margins #FungiFriends
This #lichen a close up. Corticolous Foliose Leathery light green thallus. Lobes tend to raise and ruffle into almost tubes at ends with Marginal Soralia #FungiFriends
October 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
This #lichen a close up. Corticolous Foliose Leathery light green thallus. Lobes tend to raise and ruffle into almost tubes at ends with Marginal Soralia #FungiFriends
This #lichen lirelae all on the same mission and lying aligned. Mostly. Pretty picture I think because of the foliose touches not the focus #FungiFriends
October 15, 2025 at 3:25 AM
This #lichen lirelae all on the same mission and lying aligned. Mostly. Pretty picture I think because of the foliose touches not the focus #FungiFriends
This #lichen corticolous, thin crustose thallus with lirallae - apothecia long tending to aline raised thaline rim. These script lichen easily passed by.Their unique fruiting bodies discovered only when one pays a little attention. Leans into the bush like a madman reading the text. #FunguFriends
October 13, 2025 at 8:03 PM
This #lichen corticolous, thin crustose thallus with lirallae - apothecia long tending to aline raised thaline rim. These script lichen easily passed by.Their unique fruiting bodies discovered only when one pays a little attention. Leans into the bush like a madman reading the text. #FunguFriends
In my recent posts I have stayed close to home. The #lichen are found in the city and parks where I walk my dog. I am not searching, just tuning in and learning how to look. This lichen on my radar as there are many similar here but they are not the same. Will be posting more as we go #FungiFriends
October 12, 2025 at 8:41 AM
In my recent posts I have stayed close to home. The #lichen are found in the city and parks where I walk my dog. I am not searching, just tuning in and learning how to look. This lichen on my radar as there are many similar here but they are not the same. Will be posting more as we go #FungiFriends
Wherever I point my camera with this bush in my garden, I see #lichen in abundance when winter comes the leaves fall and reveal this abundance. If you were unaware you might think the bush was dead and riddled with blight but the leaves return and the lichen is hidden in summer #FungiFriends
October 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Wherever I point my camera with this bush in my garden, I see #lichen in abundance when winter comes the leaves fall and reveal this abundance. If you were unaware you might think the bush was dead and riddled with blight but the leaves return and the lichen is hidden in summer #FungiFriends
This #lichen display on my crab apple tree. The yellow (top left) like hot eyes. On the tree (middle-ish) spreading blue/green tentacles branched sinewy. Blown-out apothecia on laminal. Underneath, covering branch, a crusty rash of pink/light blue apothecia w white thaline rim #FungiFriends
October 9, 2025 at 6:15 AM
This #lichen display on my crab apple tree. The yellow (top left) like hot eyes. On the tree (middle-ish) spreading blue/green tentacles branched sinewy. Blown-out apothecia on laminal. Underneath, covering branch, a crusty rash of pink/light blue apothecia w white thaline rim #FungiFriends
This #lichen also on the same garden bush #FungiFriends
October 8, 2025 at 5:56 AM
This #lichen also on the same garden bush #FungiFriends
I have a bush in my garden that is absolutely over run with #lichen in winter and early spring the lichen is on full display. One in particular,Thin branched light blue/green lobes loosely connected to the substrate square-ish/blunt ends long black tipped eyelashes (cilia) I’m Nausicaa #FungiFriends
October 6, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I have a bush in my garden that is absolutely over run with #lichen in winter and early spring the lichen is on full display. One in particular,Thin branched light blue/green lobes loosely connected to the substrate square-ish/blunt ends long black tipped eyelashes (cilia) I’m Nausicaa #FungiFriends
This #lichen tricky. There a number of possibilities to choose from here in South Island and when I read their descriptions it isn’t easy to separate one from the other. Especially when the photo examples don’t look like the descriptions : / The differentiation my new pet project #FungiFriends
October 4, 2025 at 8:56 PM
This #lichen tricky. There a number of possibilities to choose from here in South Island and when I read their descriptions it isn’t easy to separate one from the other. Especially when the photo examples don’t look like the descriptions : / The differentiation my new pet project #FungiFriends
This #lichen in a tree large fat swollen black apothecia looking like the back a of wingless muscle bound flies emerging from a white crusty thallus sharing space with white rimmed pink apothecia which reminds me of a jam tart. Guess that’s why the flies #FungiFriends
October 3, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This #lichen in a tree large fat swollen black apothecia looking like the back a of wingless muscle bound flies emerging from a white crusty thallus sharing space with white rimmed pink apothecia which reminds me of a jam tart. Guess that’s why the flies #FungiFriends