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Stopped at the #SelahCliffs on the way towards holiday visits this year, the #bridge was gorgeous AND there were cool #lichens!

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A starkly beautiful landscape shot of the bridge spanning Selah Creek. Cirrus clouds paint pretty pictures in the sky overhead.

A bit of old basalt, positively covered in lichens. Pale greens and olive yellows dominate.

Cladonia lichens. With small, red apothecia. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/some-iffy-cladonias.html #VancouverIsland #Lichens #Cladonia #NaturePhotography

An upright club lichen on an old, black stump. Each "club" (podetium) is a pale green pillar about 1 cm. tall, covered with tiny, powdery balls (soredia). The fruiting bodies, apothecia, are borne singly on the tips of these clubs; some are bright red. A few of the podetia are tipped, instead, with a small cup. At the base of these clubs the tiny, brighter green "leaves" (actually scales, or squamules) are the first stage of the lichen.

Cladonia lichens. With small, red apothecia. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/some-iffy-cladonias.html #VancouverIsland #Lichens #Cladonia #NaturePhotography

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Yesterday I forgot why I didn't go to the parks this past week, and saw all the fallen branches and trees covering the trails. The saws were buzzing in the background. The main trail was clear, thanks Seattle Parks Dept.! I did get to see a nice display of lichens on mossy branches by the sides of the trail.
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Some nicely branched, blue green fruticose lichens spring out from a bed of moss on these two twigs. There are also some smaller green ones. A variety of foliose lichens in shades of blue gray to powdery blue clasp the twigs. These are lying on bed of brown decaying tree leaves.

Another set of twigs, looking very artsy with the tufts of blue green lichens contrasting with the leaves in various shades of brown.

Cladonia lichens, with bright red apothecia. Part 3 of the annual "Things that Made me Happy this Year" list. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/things-that-made-me-happy-this-year.html #VancouverIsland #Lichens #NaturePhotography

An upright club lichen growing on a tree trunk. Each "club" is a pale green pillar about 1 cm. tall, covered with tiny, powdery balls (soredia). The fruiting bodies, apothecia, are borne on the tips of these clubs and are bright red. One club, on the left, holds 10 of these red tips.

Cladonia lichens, with bright red apothecia. Part 3 of the annual "Things that Made me Happy this Year" list. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/things-that-made-me-happy-this-year.html #VancouverIsland #Lichens #NaturePhotography

An upright club lichen growing on a tree. Each "club" is a pale green pillar about 1 cm. tall, covered with tiny, powdery balls (soredia). The fruiting bodies, apothecia, are borne on the tips of these clubs and are bright red. One club, on the left, holds 10 of these red tips.

Sapsucker wells and resin rivulets on a Douglas-fir. With Cladonia lichens. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/of-wells-and-weeping-trees.html #VancouverIsland #Birds #Lichens #Trees #NaturePhotography

The trunk of an evergreen tree. It has been drilled by a Red-breasted Sapsucker, who makes a series of holes, in rows and columns on the side of living trees. Each hole is about a finger-tip wide. The tree has responded by oozing sticky resins to heal the wounded area. It drips down in yellow and whitish rivulets, and has hardened there. On both sides of the trunk, where there are no sapsucker holes, Cladonia lichens are growing.

Sapsucker wells and resin rivulets on a Douglas-fir. With Cladonia lichens. New blog post: https://wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2025/12/of-wells-and-weeping-trees.html #VancouverIsland #Birds #Lichens #Trees #NaturePhotography

#silentsunday #lichens #moss

#newspecies!
A newly discovered lichen-forming fungus from #china for #FungiFriday:

Lobothallia wangii

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0EDCBB2D-92E4-5916-8AEF-C650B0274D75
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.125.173554
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Micro-worlds on an elder twig ...

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Different lichen and moss form a landscape. The lichens are grey and yellow.

Sortie Lichénologie : Vallon de la Cagne

Attention, sortie le samedi 13 décembre !
2e rendez-vous à La Gaude, 9h30 parking à proximité du Centre Culturel de la Coupole quartier Ste Appollonie, accès par la D 18 Cagnes sur Mer / La Gaude.
Pour ceux qui seront libres à la veille des fêtes de fin d'année, retour sur une sortie emblématique à faire découvrir à nos passionnés de lichens qui n

https://asnatnic.fr/sortie-lichenologie-vallon-de-la-cagne/

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