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Quill7513 in Lichen

there's no pleasure on earth quite like a good ~~lichen~~

i don't know what it is, just that it brings me joy

edit: it's a misidentified moss. 34 years old and still learning new things everyday

TropicalDingdong @lemmy.world - 5day

Whose going to tell them?

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The Quuuuuill - 5day

i know it looks like a straight moss but this is a moss/fungus lichen colony.

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TropicalDingdong @lemmy.world - 5day

My guess would be Peltigera but I'm on my phone in heavy sunlight.

Any other shots?

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The Quuuuuill - 5day

just the one. my dog was needing to keep moving. let me look up peltigera…

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Mechanismatic - 4day

So in this case is the moss the photosynthesizer of the lichen symbiotic network in conjunction with fungi and yeast...?

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The Quuuuuill - 4day

maybe! i'm not well versed. all i know is that towards the edges you have the typical simple structure of moss but in the middle it's gotten to looking more like little yellow christmas trees

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Magpie - 4day

Looks like moss to me, I don't think lichenized moss is a thing. Some close up shots would help.

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Mechanismatic - 2day

I asked the instructor of a lichen class I took a couple months ago and this was her response to the photo:

It's just moss with some dry spots in it. Mosses don't lichenize; the photosynthesizer is going to be either an algae, a cyanobacteria, or both.

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The Quuuuuill - 2day

today i learned!

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