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Golden Moonglow lichen (Dimelaena oreina) on a rock at the north shore of Lake Huron.

The photo shows part of a grey rock covered with round, crustose lichens.
The lichens have dark areole in the center, some with black fruiting bodies (apothecia).
On the edges grow white-yellow radiating lobes.

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**Kristin (vis.social Admin)** @kristinHenry@vis.social · 2d

Kristin (vis.social Admin) @kristinHenry@vis.social

For today's #inkyDays drawing, I took yesterday's pattern and took it in a more complicated direction. I also finished this piece I've been working on.

Here's an in-progress shot.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/123418451 https://ko-fi.com/Post/InkyDays-March-2025-N4N51BCM70

Hand drawn generative/procedural art in ink on an open page of my sketchbook. The abstract pattern looks a bit like a cross between lichen and plumbing pipes.

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**Hans** @Hagukh@mas.to · 3d

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Lichens on a thick tree trunk

The photo shows part of a thick tree trunk with brown, coarse bark.
Many lichens grow on this bark, with two large dominant foliose lichens in the center.
The upper lichen, a Moondust Speckled Lichen (Punctelia caseana), has yellow-green, overlapping lobes covered with broken white patches of soralia*.
The lower lichen, a Star Rosette lichen (Physcia stellaris), has green lobes with black fruiting bodies (apothecia).
Grass and trees can be seen in the distance in the blurred background.

*Soralia are openings of the lobes where soredia are produced.
Soredia are small granules of fungal hyphae and algae for the reproduction of the lichen.

**Mathew** @MSharff@pixelfed.social · 3d

Love the gradient and black infill on this one. I believe this is a Hypogymnia.

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A circular patch of lichen on a branch. The color slowly changes from white in the middle to green on the rim. The tightly packed radiating branches are outlined in a deep black.

Kristin (vis.social Admin) @kristinHenry@vis.social

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**Kristin (vis.social Admin)** @kristinHenry@vis.social · 4d

Inspiration for today's #inkyDays drawing comes from some of the lovely photographs of lichen I saw in my vis.social timeline. I also made some progress with this piece I've been working on.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/123418451 https://ko-fi.com/Post/InkyDays-March-2025-N4N51BCM70

Hand drawn generative/procedural art in ink on an open page of my sketchbook. The abstract pattern looks a bit like lichen. My glass dipping pen is next to my sketchbook.

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**Mathew** @MSharff@pixelfed.social · 4d

A little patch of Cladonia on a stump in front of my house.

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A short solitary row of green cup lichen growing on brown, damp wood.

**Hans** @Hagukh@mas.to · 4d

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Red-fruited Pixie Cup lichen (Cladonia pleurota) and moss at eye level in a landscape of lichens and mosses

A close-up of light grey-green, upright, goblet-shaped lichen structures (podetia) in a field of green and brown haircap moss.
The surface of the podetia, which are deeply open at the top, looks floury, with tiny red and black fruiting bodies (apothecia and pycnidia) growing at their edges.
Two large, thin podetia of another lichen and further moss grow in the blurred background.

**Mathew** @MSharff@pixelfed.social · 5d

This lichen just looked so alien to me. Found this on a hike out in Eastern Washington.

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A closeup of white Grey lichen on a branch with disc, cup like brown apothecia. Part of the lichen is curling, revealing a jet black underside.

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**Hans** @Hagukh@mas.to · 6d

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Close-up of Pebbled Pixie Cup lichen (Cladonia pyxidata)

Close-up of green-grey cup-shaped lichen structures (podetia) on the ground.
Green pebbles grow inside and tiny brown fruiting bodies (apothecia) grow on the edges of the closed cups.
Some grass and a ray of sunlight can be seen in the blurred background.

**JanluitPhotos** @JanLuitPhotos@photog.social · 6d *

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A American Tree Sparrow.

See it bigger here: https://jan-luit.pixels.com/featured/a-american-tree-sparrow-jan-luit.html

The head of the bird is just above and right of the middle of the photo.
It is sitting on a branch wich has some lichens.
The bird is facing to the right.

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**Anna** @azipp@pixelfed.de · 6d

Anna @azipp@pixelfed.de

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**Mathew** @MSharff@pixelfed.social · Mar 25

Mar 25

Bryan Pixelfed @RiversideBryan@pixelfed.social

Another from my Ginko Petrified Forest collection.

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A close up of a circular Grey green lichen with disc like apothecia, surrounded by other green and brown lichen, attached to a tan and orange log of petrified wood.

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**Bryan Pixelfed** @RiversideBryan@pixelfed.social · Mar 25

Mar 25

#ThickTrunkTuesday

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Huge old oak tree with chaotic twists and turns of the branches and limbs.

**Bjorn Idle** @BjornIdle@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 25

Mar 25

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Went and visited one of my favourite trees over the weekend. There's lots of lovely lichen on show at the moment...

Closeup photo of a small section of a tree trunk. The bark is silvered, but mostly covered with other organisms. There's a patch of dark green moss in the bottom left, an area of raised grey and bright red lichen to the right of it, and splats of orange-yellow rubbery-looking lichen dotted around. There's a grey lichen reaching out like lobster claws in front of everything else, while just above this is a bright yellow spikily branched patch of another species of lichen. Other patches of the abovementioned species appear in between all the others

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**Mathew** @MSharff@pixelfed.social · Mar 24

Mar 24

This is from my Ginko Petrified Forest album. The petrified wood is a perfect backdrop to the lichen growing on it.

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Grey green Lichen with circular fruiting bodies on smooth brown petrified wood.

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**Vanda Lerer, PhD** @drlerer@mastodon.social · Mar 23

Mar 23

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Evernia prunastri – aka #oakmoss
A fragrant, tree-hugging lichen used in perfumes and bioindicators. Soft, shrubby, and sensitive to air pollution. Nature’s tiny chemist!
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**Plsik (born in 320 ppm)** @plsik@mastodon.social · Mar 23 *

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Plsik (born in 320 ppm) @plsik@mastodon.social

Today I found this Cladonia lichen in the woods on a large fallen log among the moss. The trunk has been there for a long time. It's mostly moss-covered, elsewhere the bark has been worn away by scarecrows or fallen to the ground. Fortunately, this area is not a logging area, no one removes dead wood. Typical Cladonia shapes look like cups or tubes, and are about five millimetres in size at most.

Macro photo of Cladonia lichen, typical shape like a tube with the extended end upwards. Or like a cup. It's grey-green in colour, with tiny beads of reddish-brown around the perimeter of the cup. The shape is about five millimetres high and its surface is like irregular velvet. Green moss grows around the lichen. The background is indistinct and green; these are also the more distant moss petals. Macro photography does not allow to focus the whole image, even what is a few millimeters away is out of focus.

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**Hans** @Hagukh@mas.to · Mar 23

Mar 23