This is about 5 centimeters wide of a fallen stick in the grass. The center is covered in a white rim-disc lichen with disc shaped growths that have sort of light yellow-orange centers, kind of like creamsicle color. There’s a dead, brown leaf in the left of the stick, and a combination of deep green liverworts and mosses growing from the right and top sides of the stick. Tiny dew drops hang from the tips of the grass blades in the lower left corner.

Happy #HotStickSaturday! Here’s a lovely stick that fell out of a tree during a storm: #Lichen #Moss #Liverwort #Fungi #FungiFriends #ISeeMoss #PNW #Macro #Photography #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepGoing

lookin up #hotsticksaturday 🍄📷🌿

a stick rising from the forest floor with a bit of lichen at the end, above green vegetation.

just the tip #HotStickSaturday

#HotStickSaturday
#ColorADay #GreenSat
A green crust like fungus growing on deadwood.

#HotStickSaturday #FungiFriends 🍄

Four little yellow mushrooms rise from a log and their green mossy blanket. Blue sky pokes through the forest in the background

Time to whip em out! It’s #HotStickSaturday

#HotStickSaturday #fungi #tree #stumpday

A hawthorne twig carrying moss and lichen and positively dripping with moisture

Hedge life 🌱

#HotStickSaturday #Moss #Lichen #GreenSat #ColorADay #EastCoastKin #MacroPhotography

A group of orangish hexagonal polypore mushrooms, showing off their complicated undersides on a hot stick

Time to whip em out! It’s #HotStickSaturday

Sorry, I autocorrected it to HotBrickSaturday. Ha!
Here's a #HotStickSaturday

#ColorADay #GreenSat #ECK
#HotStickSaturday
A woodland twig covered in a shelf fungus with alternating green and white bands of color.

btw this is bonestem (ossicaulis lignatilis). pic involved crawling half inside this tree and taking pic pointing up. tree was still standing and alive. one of my fav finds #hotsticksaturday 🍄📷🌿

A stick covered in a sort of tube lichen lies on the mossy forest floor. The moss has fluffy green fingers reaching toward the pale sea-green collection of tubes that give way to varying sizes of caramel-colored cup-like reproductive structures.

Found this lovely specimen of some kind of tube lichen on a fallen stick in the Coast Range yesterday. #HotStickSaturday #Lichen #Fungi #FungiFriends #Moss #Forests #PNW #ISeeMoss #NatureIsArt #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #Don’tGiveUp

forbidden peanut bubber cups #hotsticksaturday 🍄📷🌿

#hotsticksaturday 🍄📷🌿

squidgy jelly with lichen #hotsticksaturday 🍄📷🌿

Common sunburst lichen on a broken off hawthorne branch

Common sunburst lichen on a broken off hawthorne branch 🌱🍄

#moss #lichen #fungifriends #hotsticksaturday

A stick with a patch of sea foam green lichen and a pinecone rests on the forest floor on top of pine needles and leaves.

#HotStickSaturday #Nature #LichenLove #GetOutside #Pine #Leaves #Forest #ECK #Photography #VT

Cream colored mushroom undersides climb up a hot stick, like a stairway for those smelly, thieving gnomes

Time to whip em out! It’s #HotStickSaturday

I lichen you

#HotStickSaturday

Bryophytes on tree bark in a shaded woodland setting. A thin colony of liverworts covers the upper surface of a small branch, forming a patch about 2 cm across. The growth is mixed: fresh bright green, flat ribbon-like strands lie alongside darker, purplish-brown shoots. Some shoots appear tightly overlapping and slightly inflated, segmented like a millipede, while others are flatter and more translucent, tongue-like, branching irregularly and spreading across the bark. The colony forms a low mat rather than a cushion, clinging closely to the surface of the branch. The contrast between the green and purplish tones, together with growth forms unfamiliar to the naked eye, gives the patch a textured, almost otherworldly appearance. Likely a mix of liverwort species including Dilated Scalewort (Frullania dilatata), which forms small purplish overlapping shoots with pocket-like lobules, and Forked Veilwort (Metzgeria furcata), which grows as flat, forked ribbons. Liverworts, moss, and hornworts are all bryophytes, small plants that live where moisture lingers.

Amazing liverwort colonies for #HotStickSaturday looking like something out of sci-fi.

A 2 cm purplish patch on a small branch in Devon this week, growing among moss.

Likely Dilated Scalewort (Frullania dilatata) and Forked Veilwort (Metzgeria furcata).

#bryophyte #liverwort

An arched, lichen-covered twig in a tree. Most of the lichen is a bright yellow sunburst lichen, with its little alien-like disc shapes all up and down the twig. There is also a tuft of pale sea-green oakmoss or cartilage lichen at the top of the arch.

I have not forgotten that it’s #HotStickSaturday. Here’s a lively bit in a twig in the sun after a rain. #Lichen #LichenSubscribe #Fungi #FungiFriends #Trees #Macro #Nature #Photography #PNW #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #KeepLooking

A tiny twig coated with huge lichens sits on black landscape fabric. The lichens are olive green and grey and minty green.

#HotStickSaturday

Fungus growing on a fallen twig. #HotStickSaturday

A thick tree branch with yellow, grey, and whiteish lichen growing on it.

A black bird with a reddish chest watches the photographer from a wire.

A black bird with a reddish chest watches the photographer from a tree.

The #crabapple #tree needed a bit of a pruning today. I was focused for most of the project! 😂 This #Robin came along to remind us that there were a few good apples left! #SmallBirdSaturday #HotStickSaturday #Lichen #Tardigrades #TreeLove #VT

anyway it's time for beats you with a #hotsticksaturday 🍄📷🌿

View along a broad forest path, looking towards the glow of a setting sun. In the foreground, a stick covered with lichen juts across the frame.

Stop right there.
#HotStickSaturday

Hands up

#HotStickSaturday
#iseemoss

A section of narrow tree branch alive with moss and lichen including a large whisky growth of what is possibly Ramalina farinacea

#HotStickSaturday #Moss #Lichen #FungiFriends #Macro 🌱🍄🌿

A cluster of vibrant scarlet elf cups grow on a hot stick contrasting to green leaves behind them

Time to whip em out! It’s #HotStickSaturday