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lucabergamasco.bsky.social
No lichens, no fungi... Best I can do for #HotStickSaturday is some berries.
January 24, 2026 at 8:15 PM
spicynoodlez11.bsky.social
It’s also #HotStickSaturday, and you know that means #Lichen! I am a fan of the outward-facing rosette lichen (with the octopus-sucker discs). #Fungi #FungiFriends #PNW #Macro #Nature #Photography #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #YouMatter
A macro shot of the end of a stick covered in the pale gray lichen with black discs, shaggy, pale sea green cartilage lichen, and some pops of bright yellow lichen fading off into the background.
January 18, 2026 at 2:16 AM
blynxart.bsky.social
enoki my beloved #hotsticksaturday #fungifriends
January 17, 2026 at 10:55 PM
trailwalker13.bsky.social
#HotStickSaturday #ColorADay #GreenSat
January 17, 2026 at 10:40 PM
lucabergamasco.bsky.social
Does ivy count for #HotStickSaturday ? Oh well... #Tree #TreeClub
January 17, 2026 at 8:31 PM
meghannpie.bsky.social
#HotStickSaturday
#FungiFriends
Color photograph of a brown stick about an inch and a half across, held vertically, and covered with 30-40 individual bright creamsickle-orange tiny fungi. This photo shows the underside of the magically fantastical Orange Pore Fungus, Favolaschia claudopus. It's hard to describe the pore structure of this invasive species of fungi (in this location), but each tiny rounded heart-shaped mushroom fruiting body has elaborate, almost honeycomb-looking structure, though rounded rather than with straight hexagonal edges. The background shows the out of focus brown duff of the forest floor, with a few flecks of green thrown in there nilly-willy.
January 17, 2026 at 6:32 PM
tanukisrevenge.bsky.social
Time to whip em out! It’s #HotStickSaturday
Some tree lung wort holds up a bit of snow on a hot stick in a winter forest
January 17, 2026 at 11:48 AM
fjellsopp.bsky.social
Here's a cool offering for #HotStickSaturday.
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A hand holds a stick covered in frosty ice crystals. Trees in fading daylight in the background.
January 17, 2026 at 10:54 AM
blynxart.bsky.social
you know what? it is once again #hotsticksaturday #fungifriends
January 17, 2026 at 5:53 AM
spicynoodlez11.bsky.social
I missed #HotStickSaturday yesterday because I was a bit down. Nevertheless, I did find a spectacular specimen. #iNaturalist says the dark #lichen is netted specklebelly. Also plenty of #Moss and other #lichens too! #PNW #ISeeMoss #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice
A forked, fallen branch is covered in a dark-crown pelt of white-dotted lichen in the middle, with a sprig of bright green tree lungwort lichen near the center, plenty of wet, green sprigs of moss, and shaggy, pale sea green cartilage lichens on the ends. Fun times!
January 11, 2026 at 5:46 PM
nimblenewt.bsky.social
#HotStickSaturday
A collection of white, grey, minty green, and frilly olive-coloured fruticose and foliose lichens (tiny Usnea and Hypogymnia especially) on some small twigs blown down in the succession of storms. They are resting on a wire bench top (I put them there, it's not where they all fell).
January 11, 2026 at 6:21 AM
justagirl52.bsky.social
Bluesky 🦋 friends, have a superb #HotStickSaturday evening! I just love their coloring! 🩷🧡🩵
January 10, 2026 at 8:45 PM
jopics.bsky.social
#HotStickSaturday #FungiFriends
#sporepunk
Stereum covering a fallen tree
Long shot of orange fungi starting to cover a fallen tree.
January 10, 2026 at 6:44 PM
squawking.bsky.social
Saw this vibrant Yellow Brain Fungus (Tremella mesenterica) on a big, freshly fallen branch today at eye level.

The vivid yellow-orange colour contrast against the damp winter woodland was startling.

#hotsticksaturday #fungifriends
Bright yellow-orange Yellow Brain Fungus (Tremella mesenterica) growing on a freshly fallen branch at eye level. The jelly-like, folded fruit bodies glow against damp grey-brown bark, with moss, lichen, and blurred winter woodland in the background.
January 10, 2026 at 5:24 PM
trudyt.bsky.social
A big trunk for #HotStickSaturday.
January 10, 2026 at 5:15 PM
tanukisrevenge.bsky.social
Time to whip em out! It’s #HotStickSaturday
Some beard looking lichen hangs from a hot stick in a snowy forest
January 10, 2026 at 12:50 PM
lucabergamasco.bsky.social
Well, it's a stick, kinda sorta... #HotStickSaturday #monochrome #BW #BlackAndWhitePhotography
January 10, 2026 at 10:42 AM
lucabergamasco.bsky.social
#HotStickSaturday - I'm scraping the archive barrel, need to go hunting. #lichen
January 10, 2026 at 10:39 AM
spicynoodlez11.bsky.social
Of course, Saturday would not be complete without a twig slathered in lichen. #HotStickSaturday #Lichen #FungiFriends #Fungi #Moss #ISeeMoss #Forest #PNW #Nature #Macro #Photography #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #YouMatter
About 5 centimeters of a twig traveling from the upper right to the lower left of the frame. The bottom part is covered in yellow sunburst lichen, the middle has a small section of outward looking rosette lichen with its black discs and whitish rims. This runs into a shaggy, pale sea green puff of some kind if ramalina lichen, which then goes up into a sprig of dark green moss. So much going on here!
January 3, 2026 at 10:44 PM
lucabergamasco.bsky.social
Been away today - here is a quick hot stick for #HotStickSaturday
January 3, 2026 at 10:25 PM
nimblenewt.bsky.social
It was hard to wait til Saturday to whip this out! Fallen from a Horse Chestnut tree at work.
#HotStickSaturday #fungifriends #lichen
An absurdly lichen-colonised small stick sits where it fell on some black landscape fabric with yellow stripes. At the bottom of the photo are my work boots to show how large the tufts are (they are of similar size to my boot's toe). The stick is utterly coated with minty and white coloured fruticose lichen, most in dense tufts like evernia and usnea, but some more leaflike. It's very funny to see such a small stick so totally enclosed by quite large lichen tufts.
January 3, 2026 at 9:50 PM
trailwalker13.bsky.social
#HotStickSaturday
January 3, 2026 at 8:55 PM
justagirl52.bsky.social
Bluesky 🦋 friends, have a superb #HotStickSaturday! Meanwhile, I'd like to place this stick up a certain dictators 🍊's ass.
January 3, 2026 at 7:50 PM
tanukisrevenge.bsky.social
Time to whip em out! It’s #HotStickSaturday
Some red brain like little fungi on a hot stick in front of another hot stick with green lichen and moss Hot stick on stick action!!
January 3, 2026 at 1:06 PM
spicynoodlez11.bsky.social
Going out to look at branches and twigs after storms is my new favorite activity because I find #HotStickSaturday examples like this! #Lichen #Moss #ISeeMoss #Fungi #FungiFriends #Macro #Photography #NatureIsArt #PNW #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #YouMatter
A 5-centimeter long section of a branch that fell out of a tree during a recent storm. It’s covered in some sort of light bluish-green lichen with black and white-rimmed disc growths all over it. Sprigs of moss and beard lichens grow in spots along the branch too. Blurred out, brown leaf litter in the background.
December 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM