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Phaeophyscia orbicularis #lichenGBI. The first time I found this I struggled to get to an ID as it was not orbicular at all, just a series of amalgamated thalli. This will be a longish thread but shows how these don't always look like their pictures in the books! 1/3 (I think!)

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

An easily recognisable #lichenGBI because of its big black apothecia - Porpidia macrocarpa. Found in Grantown-on-Spey, Moray, Scotland, vc 95 on a sandstone garden wall. I had not realised that there are 2 forms. My sample turned out to be P. macrocarpa f. nigrocruenta (exciple K+ crimson)

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Bloody Heart Lichen #LichenGBI aka Mycoblastus sanguinarius found on a dead pine branch at Glenmore, Inverness-shire, vc96. So called for the red colouration under the apothecia (so I would have identified this sooner if I had scratched of an apothecium) 1/2

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

#lichenGBI. Another lichen with perithecia on the same branch as Porina aenea. Struggled with getting an ID for this one and at first went for Anisomeridium ranunculosporum but the ascus size and shape was wrong and eventually got to Arthopyrenia analepta. Thread 1/2

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

The Dobson Field Keys are now available as FREE downloads from the #BritishLichenSociety web page. There are 3 to download along with update files with the new names and some comments. Go to “The Society” tab and pick BLS Shop. Photos not there yet but plans afoot to sort that. #lichensGBI

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

Oooh, 2 of my interests combined - craft and physics! Though I'm looking forward to when they tackle crochet... #knitting #physics #crochet

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Little yellow lichens seem to be on topic at the moment, so here is Polycauliona ucrainica, found on the same branch as P. polycarpa in my previous post. In my garden, on a bird cherry branch. Some care needed to separate it from P. candelaria. @geoffrey311.bsky.social #lichensGBI 1/3

submitted 72 days ago • 2 comments

@peterbraubach.bsky.social have been following similar lichen trajectories: Polycauliona polycarpa in this thread and some perithecia investigations which I'll post later. I had ignored tiny yellow thalli assuming they were Xanthoria parietina .. but I was wrong. A detailed thread. #lichensGBI 1/3

submitted 73 days ago • 1 comment

#lichenGBI Chaenotheca ferruginea NN7299, vc96, East-Inverness-shire. This was my first find of a pinhead lichen near home. I must have walked past it hundreds of times in my pre-lichen days. If I had walked round at night with a UV torch it would have shouted look at me as it fluoresces. 1/2

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

#LichensGBI Another little brown bushy lichen, mainly found in Northern Scotland, Cornicularia normoerica. Unmistakeable once you have seen it, and no microscopy needed. It's the only species in Cornicularia. (Who were Norman and Eric??) 1/2

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

#lichensGBI Time for a lichen post after a Christmas/New Year break. This one is a local speciality of the Cairngorms, in Scotland, and is a favourite of mine, Cetraria sepincola. No need to go high to find it, as it is in my village (250m above sea level). And no microscopy needed for ID! 1/2

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

"Slime mold" is a popular political insult but slime molds are actually the smartest and safest molds, & in some ways smarter and safer than politicians. I definitely would not eat a US senator for example, nor would I expect them to do complex pathfinding calculations for me

submitted 116 days ago • 5 comments

In the deep south just now and not many lichens about but I did find this #fungus growing on moss in the lawn. Sunbury, Middlesex, UK. Any ideas? @ilichenmoss2.bsky.social

submitted 132 days ago • 2 comments