Lichenomphalia mushroom on top of a mossy stump

What I think is Lichenomphalia chillin' amongst some moss

Windowsill with community of lichens

Today I took my students on a walk to a special place on campus with a cute community of lichens. This little windowsill on the side of a lecture hall has educated UC Davis students on lichens for at least a few years now!

Another view of Collemataceous jelly lichen

#fungi #fungifriends

Ladybug picnic under mushroom umbrellas. Sonoma, CA

Gelatinous lichen thallus next to forefinger for size reference.

Close-up of thallus and apothecia using my hand lens

Collemataceae jelly lichen from my New Year's Day hike!

Close up of tiny mushrooms

And a close-up of the mushrooms! 🤯

Mossy rock with fairy ring on end

Here is a wider picture of the rock.

This has been me for the last week and a half

Fairy ring of what iNaturalist tells me is most likely to be Deconica mushrooms

I found a fairy ring - with tiny basidiocarps - growing on moss, ON a boulder. This was a first for me!

Granular lichen with moss plants poking through

Detail of the small lobed lichen with round lighter green bits on the sides of the lobes

Section through the moss with brown plants underneath and lichen and still vital plants on top

Detail of the moss.

Psoroglaena stigonemoides - I think. A #lichen I learned about here and in the fungi UK forum. Overgrowing moss on a stone post.

Scytinium intermixed with moss

Wider view

Scytinium lichen on my hike today. I love jelly lichens!

Watercolour painting of various fungi, moss and lichen from Great Wood near Keswick, Cumbria: chlorociboria fungus, Usnea lichen on larch, little shaggy moss, common feather moss, big shaggy moss, common tamarisk moss, Evernia prunastri lichen

Today for #ArtAdventCalendar - lichens, moss and fungi from a winter walk in the Lake District last year - winter’s great for finding these, as they become more prominent amongst the bare branches.
#nature

I'm happy to continue posting microscopy pictures!!! My plant pics should be transitioning to lichen microscopy soon because that's what I'm teaching next quarter

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I want a custom Bluesky feed that shows me endless 400x microscope images.

I need inspiration and examples of what’s possible.

Close up of stoma XS with chloroplasts in guard cells

Oh wait yeah you can literally see the chloroplasts in the guard cells.

A stoma on the outside of tomato stem. Prepped by my student. 400x

A stoma on tomato stem. You can see some photosynthetic tissue just beneath it and before the ground tissue turns into collenchyma. The guard cells are green because they have chloroplasts too.

This is at 400x magnification!

XS of tomato stem by my student. Glandular trichome in center.

Ever wondered why your hands get sticky and green when handling the tomatoes in your garden? This is why. You can actually see the green coloring of the secretions in this intact glandular trichome.

My student's beautiful tomato stem cross-section for their final. Secondary growth, trichomes, stomata, collenchyma...isolated phloem strands! This section really has it all.

A great service indeed

I'm not sure to be honest but it sure is pretty

I love this for me. 😂🍄 Queen of Quirky Flora sounds like the title for my dissertation.
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Made a cross section of carrot root today with my students. You can see that the vascular cambium produces secondary parenchyma as well as secondary phloem and xylem.

I had to delete it because there's no edit feature on bluesky yet and people were thinking it was my photo! I might repost it later and make it more clear that it was someone else's photo and I was just admiring the cute mushroom

Darn, bluesky doesn't have an edit feature yet. I'm going to delete this because I don't want people to think it's my photo!

This isn't my photo! But it's been going around as Mycena roseoflava and I saw it and was like oh I am in love with this cute little mushroom haha

This is Cladonia! (A lichen)

Russula friend (they're blushing!) 🤭

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