#evernia prunastri

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Blackthorn Lichens

Oakmoss and shield lichens growing on a blackthorn branch, at Glapthorn Cow Pastures.

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Lichen photos by Robert Thompson

Photo 1 - Lecanora chlarotera, Evernia prunastri, and Physcia spp.

Photo 2 - Cladonia coccifera

Photo 3 - Teloschistes chrysophthalus

Photo 4 - Cladonia coccifera

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Oakmoss #lichen

Possibly Evernia prunastri. Picture taken December 3. #oakmoss #nature #naturephotography #woods #lichens

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Lichens/lavar (Ramalina fastigiata, Ramalina fraxinea, Evernia prunastri). Värmland, Sweden (December 15, 2019).

[rebeccathenaturalist]

After this morning's Christmas Bird Count, my friend and I went to Hawthorne Street for a couple of errands. We parked near two trees on a side street, which yielded up a lovely array of lichens, fungi, and moss. My best guesses for IDs:

Oakmoss lichen (Evernia prunastri)

Racomitrium sp.

Whitewash lichen (Phylictris argena)

Hairy Curtain Crust (Stereum hirsutum)

Splitgill mushroom (Schizophyllum commune)

Mossy Maze Polypore (Cerrena unicolor)

Candelariaceae sp.

[noseysilverfox]

January 2025

Oakmoss (lat. Evernia prunastri). A lichen whose scent might be familiar to many from perfumery as "oakmoss." It has a subtle fragrance of warm earth and resin. In 2010, the IFRA (International Fragrance Association) classified the extract of this plant as a strong allergen, leading to its use being heavily restricted and replaced with synthetic alternatives🌱

Эверния сливовая, или дубовый мох (лат. Evernia prunastri). Лишайник, чей аромат может многим быть известным из парфюмерии, как «древесный мох». Он пахнет ненавязчиво, тёплой землей и смолой. В 2010 году IFRA (International Fragrance Association — Международная ассоциация по ароматическим веществам) внесла экстракт данного растения в категорию сильных аллергенов, поэтому применение сильно ограничено и заменено на синтетические аналоги🌱

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Can lichen be farmed? With the scale and uniformity required for supermarket sales, I’d think there’s commercial production involved. (Also, did you meet Borat?)

No lichens can't be farmed, though there are some species like Evernia prunastri that will commonly grow in orchards and are commercially harvested, so kind a win win? But lichens are too slow rowing and sensitive to be farmed. That's why lichens are just not a commercially viable product. The only way to collect them is from the wild, so it's lucky that they aren't particularly delicious or else humans could very easily deplete wild populations as they did while harvesting them for purple dye back in the day. And I did not meet Borat in Kazakhstan, and I am pretty sure if I had mentioned him I would have been met with icy stares all around. Kazakh people are understandably not too fond of those movies . . .

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Oakmoss (Evernia prunastri)

Carnaxide/Portugal (29/10/2024)

[Nikon D850; AF 105mm Micro-Nikkor F2,8 with Nissin Circular Flash  MF 18; 1/250s; F20; 400 ISO]

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Oakmoss lichen (Evernia prunastri) in Forest Park earlier this spring.

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[avdmai]

Reblogging this again cause I'm 90% sure that big lichen is Evernia prunastri, not Cladonia portentosa. The issue is with the original photographer's ID as far as I can tell.

C. portentosa tends to grow on the ground and is rounder (fruticose growth form), like someone in the notes already said. E. prunastri usually grows on trees and has a flatter (foliose) growth form. This also just looks like Evernia to me

I can't really speak to the Hypogymnia––I think there is a Hypogymnia species there (below and to the left of the big Evernia) but I'm no good at identifying those. It's the more 3D-looking one.

There's also what looks like a Platismatia species there, on both ends of the stick––the flatter, more blue- or gray-green one with little fissures through the surface––and you can see apothecia (reproductive structures; they look like little brown circles) from some crustose ("paint on a rock" growth form) species to the right of the big Evernia.

Anyway these are just my best guesses! Please feel free to correct!

Lichen Cladonia portentosa and Hypogymnia physodes.jpg

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-oakmoss (Evernia prunastri)

-Parmelia sulcata

Great Tit by Dean Mason

in love with lichens :)