#greenshield lichen

[worm-gar]

A Greenshield Lichen i found on one of my hikes

[alcnfr]

A Greenshield Lichen (Flavoparmelia caperata) on a fallen Pine bough in the woodlot.

[crudlynaturephotos]

[mycoblogg]

FOTD #130 : common greenshield lichen! (flavoparmelia caperata)

common greenshield lichen is a foliose lichen in the family parmeliaceae. it often grows on rocks & the bark of trees around the world :-) it is notably quite resistant to air pollution.

the big question : can i bite it?? this lichen is non-poisonous !!

f. caperata description :

"the common greenshield is fairly easy to spot : it looks somewhat like a leaf of lettuce glued to the side of a tree. its upper surface is usually pale yellow-green, but it becomes a deeper green when wet. the edges of the common greenshield are broken up into rounded lobes. these lobes are smooth when the lichen is small, but soon become wrinkled in medium to large specimens. towards the centre of the lichen, you will notice irregular rough patches."

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[forestfairy9969]

Common green shield lichen

Taken on a forest walk 3/04/2024

West Michigan

[memoriesofthepark]

A glimpse at the ecosystems that exist on this one particular tree in my complex.

Including:

Speckled greenshield 》 Flavopunctelia flaventior (1st & 2nd images)

Lacy powdered ruffle 》 Parmotrema hypoleucinum (6th image)

Beard lichens 》 Genus Usnea (3rd, 5th, 6th, & 7th images)

And some fun and funky red-toned fellows in the 8th and 9th images that I have yet to ID.

Southeast Texas, 17 Nov. 2023

Sidenote: I have finally acquired a copy of Entangled Life and good christ, I am loving it so very much. It makes me smile when a Cosmo song comes across my spotify while I'm reading it. I admire and love the Sheldrake brothers very dearly, and have found much comfort and inspiration in their work. 🍄💛🎙

[featherlover]

My random pic collection of the day/week/month

[leatherpearlslace]

[eregyrn-falls-art]

Meanwhile - MOSS and LICHENS

It's been warmer and very rainy the past few days, so the Starry Bristle Moss (orthotrichum stellatum) near where I get the bus in the morning is all out and plumped up. Back in 2019 I posted some pics along with what it looks like when it's dry out (it's not nearly as green and lush.)

I love getting to say hi to it when it's out and enjoying the damp and wet weather like this. It's so cute!

Nearby trees have a lot more lichen than moss on them. (They have SOME moss; while the trees with the large amount of moss have SOME lichens, but it seems like an either-or thing.)

Fairly sure that the light green, larger one is common greenshield lichen (Flavoparmelia caperata).

What I can't figure out yet is the very yellow-green stuff. I'm not even sure if it's a lichen, or a moss. Or something else? In the bottom-left photo, as I zoom in, I THINK that some of the more yellow-green bits MIGHT be young versions of the grey-green greenshield lichen??? But the bottom right photo seems like a completely distinct population (on another tree).

I'm not finding anything comparable in some preliminary searches. Will keep trying, but if anyone has any clues, give me a shout!

[lovephotographyandcaptainswan]

Common greenshield lichen.

A conspicuous medium to large leafy lichen, it is pale grey when dry and yellow green when wet. It has rounded lobes, measuring 3 to 8 mm wide, and these often have a wrinkled appearance, especially in older specimens, looking like molten wax. Trunks of deciduous trees and on other, generally base-poor, substrates. 😜🌱

[mi5019liamcoughlin]

These are some of the notes as I plan out the 6 animations.

these are more rough notes than the previous ones so I'll translate my bad handwriting below.

at this moment in time, I'm planning to make a tree and use that as the object to project on. I also wish to make all the sound effects myself as I feel like it just adds to the experimental vibe.

Facts

Spores

I figured that one of the most well-known things about fungi is that they release spores and that would be a very interesting thing to portray in animation as I'm not used to making particle effects.

Fungi

Jelly baby (smooth greenish brown or yellowish cap and rough stem with jelly-like flesh on the inside)

Penny bun (brown cap with white edges and flesh with a slightly tan stem that has a net texture)

Idea: to make a particle effect in After Effects (fairly easy idea to come up with)

Sounds

Blowing into the microphone

Process

Growth

the life and death of the fungi is what I went for here watching it sprout and flourish then wither and die.

Fungi

Cordyceps (bright orange head, orange-yellow body with a rough texture)

Cultivated Enoki (small white caps and long spindly stems, usually bunched up together)

Oyster Mushroom (smoky grey or brown caps that are wavey with split edges sometimes and have white stems that spread into the cap giving the illusion that the stem isn't there sometimes)

Coral Spots (orangy-coral-coloured caps that often appear coming out of a dead tree)

idea: having multiple fungi pop up and die over time

Sounds

Popping sounds

Scratching on boards

Feelings

Spiders

While I am not afraid or uncomfortable with fungi many people are so to reflect that fear I want to turn a fungus into what I fear, spiders

Fungi

Devil's fingers (long tentacle-like red stems with lumpy black marks that, it has also been described as smelling of rotting flesh)

idea: stop motion-inspired spiders

Sounds

Clicking

wood tapping

Creativity

Colour (renaming Psychadelics)

one of the harder ones for me to associate with fungi until I thought of magic mushrooms and the types of psychedelic effects that one might expect in fiction.

Fungi

Fly agaric (bright red cap with white lumpy spots, the stem is white with a brittle texture and a skirt right underneath the base)

Amethyst deceiver (purple stem and cap, sometimes the cap appears warped)

Common greenshield lichen (pail green with a wrinkled appearance)

idea: warped spiral with mushrooms flying about

sounds

paper wobble

shaking clothes

Benefits

Symbiosis

this was by far the most difficult to come up with an idea for in all stages but ultimately I'm just gonna have the tree surrounded by relatively harmless fungi

fungi

Button mushroom ( a white or brown cap and a white stem with a double ring)

Common Morel (a grey, brown or white cap with a raisin-like texture and honeycomb-like groves, a white or cream stem)

Idea: fungi sprouting up and living in harmony with the tree

sounds

pops

Cautions

Decay

a big worry and concern when it comes to fungi is that some are poisonous and infectious to us and I wish to portray that here.

Fungi

Deathcap ( a flat yellow or olive-coloured cap, an off-white stem with a pinecone zigzag-like texture, a skirt by the hat and a swollen base surrounded by a white volva

Penicillin ( a small fluffy textured ball, mostly put in here as my family has a history of penicillin allergies)

Idea: fungus growing around the tree as bits of it rot off

Sound

paper ripping

Scratching

[vandaliatraveler]

On a bleak, gray December afternoon, the best color on Brown’s Hill in the Mason-Dixon Historical Park was provided courtesy of its lichen, moss, and fungi. From top: Lipstick powderhorn lichen (Cladonia macilenta), also known as scarlet pin lichen; turkey tail mushroom (Trametes versicolor), with a green cast caused by an algae; Dixie reindeer lichen (Cladonia subtenuis), the most common of West Virginia’s five reindeer lichens; common greenshield lichen (Flavoparmelia caperata), which most frequently grows on tree trunks; and rock greenshield lichen (Flavoparmelia baltimorensis), which grows primarily on sedimentary rock.

[dendroica]

Common Greenshield Lichen, Flavoparmelia caperata (by me)

[biblenomad]

Flavoparmelia caperata, the common greenshield lichen, is that grows on the bark of trees, and occasionally on rock. #flavoparmeliacaperata #greenshield #lichen #yellow #green #fungi #fungiphotography #perspective #nature #naturephotography #naturesart (at Castaway Island Preserve) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJzOlK2rcvX/?igshid=suueby5lkt4s

[lichenaday]

Flavopunctelia flaventior

Speckled greenshield

I am naming my next DnD character Speckled Greenshield, just FYI. This foliose lichen has large, wide lobes that grow in loosely attached rosettes up to 12 cm in diameter. The upper surface is wrinkled, pale green or yellow-green, and large patches of pale pseudocyphellae (openings in the thallus surface to facilitate gas exchange with the inner fungal layer). These  pseudocyphellae often form soralia which produce fine or granular sorelia, though crescent-shaped soralia can also crop up on the lobe margins. The lower surface is dark-brown to black, with short, simple rhizines. Apothecia are rare, and are deeply concave, with a brown disk and often sorediate margin. F. falvenitior can be found in boreal and temperate regions growing on bark, wood, and rock, and is pretty common and widespread everywhere except Australasia. 

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[cunabula27]

Pretty sure this is common greenshield lichen (Flavoparmelia caperata). Entirely certain that this photo completes six months of the project, and that I have no intention of stopping. I'm long past the point where I would have carried on after lockdown finished, but it hasn't finished for me so it's not a question I've had to ask myself yet. Thank you for all the kind comments and likes and whatnot. Let's see what tomorrow brings. ______ #today #diary #calendar #nature #fungus #fungi #common #greenshield #lichen #commongreenshield #flavoparmeliacaperata #woodland #green #surrey #uk #panasonic #lumixs1 https://www.instagram.com/p/CGe7N7sHNp6/?igshid=e4uzdpjy0qs4