A blackthorn twig against a clear deep blue sky. The twig is blossoming, with lots of buds and several open flowers, but also thick clouds of fluffy usnea lichen.

Another cluster of blackthorn twigs covered in flower buds and several open flowers feeling out from a cloud of usnea lichen fluff.

Something I haven’t seen so often: bushy usnea lichen thriving on a live blackthorn twig which is blossoming. Seems like usually lichen does best on dead twigs and branches, but just here the two are happily coexisting.

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A small bit of a granite tor, in two rounded and weathered layers, against a deep blue sky with a dodgy white cloud. A small slice of blue sea can be seen in one corner. The rock is deeply encrusted with woolly lichen on all surfaces that get reasonable sun exposure, and smaller patches of crustose lichen where the fluffier stuff isn’t thriving.

A satisfyingly woolly rock.

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a close-up photograph of a lichen growing on a fence post, lit brightly from the right of the frame

A lichen (I don’t mess around with the arcane arts, e.g. identifying lichens) on top of a fence on Box Hill

Surrey, UK, March 2026

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Tree trunk with a bend where a bunch of moss has grown looking like a horse’s saddle

Saddle up my faerie cowboys! 🧚 🤠 ✨

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A photograph of the trunk of a tree (possibly a beach) that is very heavily caked in yellow lichen, there is something mesmerising about the texture of the lichen with many little craters to be seen, maybe almost akin to what the moon's surface would look like if it actually were made of cheese. The trunk itself is only visible in small patches. The background of the image is heavily out of focus to the point of nonexistence.

The cratered texture of the lichen on this tree has me mesmerised.

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The rock in the landslide was mostly a charcoal-grey basalt, which you see here covered in a thriving crust of black, green, grey, rust and yellow lichens.

#lichen garden, Hope Landslide, BC, Canada (Stó:lō)
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Photo of a group of ancient and still bare oak trees, their main trunks and branches covered in layers of moss and lichen, some dried orange leaves here and there, but otherwise an abstract gray chaos of branches

Photo of a group of ancient and still bare oak trees, their main trunks and branches covered in layers of moss and lichen, some dried orange leaves here and there, but otherwise an abstract gray chaos of branches

Abstract Ancient Oaks

(spotted during yesterday's evening hike, hoping to turn this into a series...)

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A photograph of a small bronze (I think, it is tarnished but the bronze shines through in places) sculpture of an upsidedown ice cream come sitting on top of a granite wall which is liberally speckled in lichen. In the background is a beach and the sea, both are out of focus; the sea also contains a prominent but singular yellow bokeh ball, might have been the reflection of the sun. To the right of the cone can be seen three pillars on the beach along with the sidewall of the steps down to the beach.

Quirky little bronze sculpture.

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Spring trees against a blue sky. Covered in yellow lichen.

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Yellow lichen on a dormant shrub.

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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

Pale green powder-horn type lichen encrusts a weathered wood fence beam. Some have a spot of bright red on the ends.

A diagonal view of more of the same lichen structure, but here it grows horizontally off the upright plank of the weathered fence.

Cladonia macilenta lichen, looking a bit past their prime, but some scarlet tips still hang on.
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Small, creamy to brown mushrooms, with a grooved cap with a central depression (navel). They are the fruiting bodies of a lichen; the dark green coating on the wood (tiny globes) are the algal component. With small mosses and scattered Douglas-fir needles.

Lichen agaric 'shrooms, Lichenomphalia umbellifera. On a mossy log. New blog post: wanderinweeta.blogspot.com/2026/03/marc... #VancouverIsland #RLichens #Mushrooms #Moss #LichenSubscribe #NaturePhotography

A thin twig of hawthorn, densely encrusted with a bright yellow-green lichen that is fruiting vigorously and is covered in little cup-shaped apothecia. A few small brightly red-pink coloured buds of the tree are poking through the layer of lichen.

Lichen cups and hawthorn buds. I don’t know what species the lichen is.

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A single erythronium aka the fawn lily, trout lily, dog's-tooth violet or adder's tongue shooting out of a steep slope covered in fallen leaves with tall spruces and pines in the background.

This spring crocus was so full of pollen you can see it trapped in the petals made semi-translucent on a bright background.

A single spring crocus popping out of a patch of dried tall grass leaves.

A thicket of... moss and lichen!!

Early bloomers from our walk in the woods today...

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A section of cherry tree twig covered in different types of lichen and some dark green moss (on the bottom). On the upper right, there is some pale, sea-green oakmoss lichen. In the middle is the grayish-white outward-looking rosette lichen with its little black discs. Down to the left is some bright yellow sunburst lichen, along with some pale bluish green shield lichen.

This #HotStickSaturday offering is still part of a cherry tree. Some of my favorite outward-looking rosette lichen with other species and some moss! #Lichen #Fungi #FungiFriends #LichenSubscribe #Macro #Nature #Photography #PNW #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice

Small bright green Polypodium glycyrrhiza fern leaves grow upside down in a bright olive green moss bed on a big leaf maple (Acer macrophyllum) branch. You can see a profusion of mossy and lichenous tree branches in the background. This was photographed from a foot bridge over a ravine, looking straight into the crowns of the trees growing in the ravine floor.

An array of green mosses and lichen in various shades of blue to blue-green cover an apple tree branch crotch. There are flat growing shield lichen, a few branching lichens, both sturdy looking and lacy, and prickly looking moss branches. It is a medley of textures. Apple trees seem to have the best lichens and mosses.

Trouvailles: Licorice fern (Polypodium glycyrrhiza) on a big leaf maple(Acer macrophyllum) ; a lichen and moss bonanza.
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The rock walls of a chasm in the gritstone rock, encrusted with lichen, carpeted with moss, adorned with ferns. Gnarled trees grow overhang the far wall, silhouetted against the blue sky

A view of the Lud's Church chasm in late winter sun

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White lichen growing on a moss covered tree trunk

Layers

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A branch fell out of a tree during the last storm. Here it is, - damp, dark purplish-brown wood lying in the dark brown bark on the park path. The stick is covered in pale sea-green oakmoss lichen, some cartilage lichen and tufts of bright, happy, Kelly-green moss.

A larger #HotStickSaturday entry than usual. It’s covered in #Oakmoss #lichen and fluffy #moss. #ISeeMoss #LichenSubscribe #ISeeMoss #PNW #Nature #Photography #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #MentalHealthBreak

An undulating bed of moss and old sporophytes is seen on the top rail of a fence in our front yard. A couple of lichens can be seen in the moss, as dawn begins in the distance. Due to the low light and vapor in the air, indistinct utility poles, rooflines and foliage add to the colors and shapes in the picture. The colors are mostly green, on a strong diagonal in the lower half of the picture, and yellow, orange, gray and blue fill in the sky above the green.

An undulating bed of moss and old sporophytes is seen on the top rail of a fence in our front yard. A couple of lichens can be seen in the moss, as dawn begins in the distance. #mosstodon #lichensubscribe #portland #oregon #pdx

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a close-up of a dried-out scrub bush branch mostly overgrown with some aggressively orange cup lichen, with more blurry scrubland in the background; a portion of it is highlighted by sunlight, showcasing the HUGE color contrast between light vs shade

a close-up of the surface of a rock with multiple colonies of very varied colored colonies of lichen; orange, turquoise, and black, each with its defined borders/territory, looking like those political maps you saw in elementary school

a quintissentially "California" view from a ridge, stretching across some rolling hills partially dotted with oak trees; a low patch of fog rolls through BEHIND two of the more prominent trees, obscuring the distant hills

another "California" view from high up a mountainside, looking down on naturally sculpted plains & tree-lined hills below, with a cloud layer shielding some of the most distant hills; at left, an alpine tree joins the viewer in standing lone sentry and appreciating the sublime beauty of the scene before us

#ThrowbackThursday Carrizo Plain CA, April 2023, 1 of 2

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A lumpy, 4-centimeter section of a maple tree trunk covered in a species of disc lichen with brownish centers and white rims. The discs are packed together tightly, so they kind of made me think of dragon scales for some weird reason. A bit of pale, bluish-green shield lichen is on the left edge, and a couple of small sprigs of tiny, pale sea green oakmoss lichen is on the far right.

For some reason, the #lichen on this late #ThickTrunkTuesday offering has me thinking about #dragon scales. #LichenSubscribe #Fungi #FungiFriends #Trees #Nature #Photography #PNW #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #Don’tGiveUp

Winter hedgerow shurbs without foliage covered in a variety of main pale green lichen.

Winter hedgerow shurbs without foliage covered in a variety of main pale green lichen.

Knepp, #WestSussex England #LichenSubscrube #Lichen Often overlooked and disregarded Lichens are a composite organism that arises from algae or cyanobacteria living among filaments of multiple fungi in a symbiotic relationship. Typically growing about 1 mm per […]

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A red bloom from a deciduous tree. It will eventually turn into a leaf.

Tons of little moss tufts cling to a tree trunk prettily.

A few little pixie cup lichens grow on a stump between tufts of vibrant green moss.

Saw a coyote on today's walk, but wasn't able to get a photo. Super cool experience though.

Also some pretty #moss, and #lichen.

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So plant people .. am I the only one who hears "Lichen Follow" at the end of the plant influencers little reels, tiktoks, videos ...?

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