r/Lichen 6h ago

Orange lichen

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16 Upvotes

Found on a rock in my garden :) It kind of reminds me of cooked carrots when super zoomed in


r/Lichen 1d ago

Lichens of the PNW

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90 Upvotes

Back to the rarely scheduled but beautiful lichen photos I took on a hike this weekend. I especially wanted to grace your feeds with one of my favourite lichens, Icmacdophila ericetorum. (Pic 12) It’s one of my favourites because the common names is referred to as fairy upchuck


r/Lichen 1d ago

Hoh Rainforest, lichen lovers paradise

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20 Upvotes

r/Lichen 1d ago

Lichen?

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9 Upvotes

I was out mushroom hunting and came across this?? I have no clue if it’s lichen, a mushroom, or some kind of mold maybe? iNaturalist says “fungi including lichens” It resembles Velcro or toy stuffing, but it’s super firm and like slimy? Like it has soap bubbles almost. It’s also sticking to the sticks and needles around it, but it growing directly from the ground. The yellow piece, which looks suspiciously like a bolete mushroom, is attached firmly, I poked it with a stick.
Found on a hillside beneath hemlock, pine, and oak trees.


r/Lichen 3d ago

not sure if lichen but seems a good place to start? What could this be ?

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24 Upvotes

Growing on very dead ivy trunk in uk, I thought it was paint at first but it’s between where the bark had come away


r/Lichen 3d ago

a very successful patch on an otherwise barren wall

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56 Upvotes

r/Lichen 3d ago

Hi can anyone id this lichen?

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hi we’re in angelo coast range reserve and this was found on a douglas fir yesterday 🙏🏻


r/Lichen 3d ago

Can anyone id this lichen please?

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7 Upvotes

this was taken at Angelo coast range reserve on a tan oak in Mendocino county yesterday, does anyone know what lichen this is?


r/Lichen 5d ago

I'm so happy there are a lot of those in a local forest!

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357 Upvotes

Photographing lichens and mushrooms is one of my favorite things to do😍


r/Lichen 5d ago

Lil lichen desk buddies

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24 Upvotes

r/Lichen 5d ago

A beautiful specimen I found at the park today

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258 Upvotes

r/Lichen 6d ago

Trumpet Lichen

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108 Upvotes

Cladonia fimbriata


r/Lichen 6d ago

So many species on one rock!

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30 Upvotes

I found these lichens on a shoreline boulder at Point Lobos, California.


r/Lichen 6d ago

Texas lichen :)

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26 Upvotes

I'm not super familiar with different types but I love it all nonetheless! I can't ever skip a tree with lichen on it lol


r/Lichen 6d ago

Tree lichen id

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5 Upvotes

hi guys we’re trying to id this crustose lichen in Angelo Coast Range reserve, does anyone know what species it could be?


r/Lichen 6d ago

I used to play basketball

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100 Upvotes

At my dads house the basketball hoop was taken down maybe a year ago, used to shoot hoops on it with my grandma all the time as a kid ❤️. It’s time has come, sad to see it go, but happy to see a different form of life is still enjoying the hoop.


r/Lichen 7d ago

Fluorescent California lichen

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100 Upvotes

r/Lichen 7d ago

Found these guys hanging on my fabric raised bed. Missouri.

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31 Upvotes

Roly poly for scale.


r/Lichen 7d ago

Northern Nevada lichen

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186 Upvotes

Ward Charcoal Ovens State Historic Park and Great Basin National Park near the bristlecone pine grove


r/Lichen 7d ago

Bay Area California Lichen

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36 Upvotes

Found in Tiburon


r/Lichen 8d ago

Lichen

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36 Upvotes

r/Lichen 9d ago

Peltigera hydrothyria

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47 Upvotes

Eastern waterfan from today. This one was in Cape Breton Nova Scotia


r/Lichen 9d ago

a little family of what could be flavoparmelia rutidota (?)

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125 Upvotes

In the bush in ACT, Australia.


r/Lichen 9d ago

Lichen/fungus on cork bark log

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18 Upvotes

r/Lichen 12d ago

epic lichen on stick

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479 Upvotes

I found this stick (probs a troll's cane) in a forest in Dublin, Ireland last year. The end had the most gorgeous lichen coloring!

By far one of my favorite lichen finds. :)