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Nodobryoria abbreviata

Tufted foxtail lichen

I have been really thinking I need a haircut lately. I can’t pull off the long-haired, brunette look like N. abbreviata. This brittle, fruticose lichen grows on conifers in chaparral and coast-adjacent woodland. It has a reddish-brown, fruticose thallus, and flat, concolorous apothecia surrounded in a ciliate margin. Nododobryoria was only recognized as a sperate genus from Bryoria lichens in 1995 due to a difference in chemical composition and cellular structure. Goes to show you shouldn’t judge a lichen by its thallus–it’s what’s on the inside that counts!

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Lecanora helva

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Xanthoria aureola

ok, before I get a bunch of messages and reblogs like “Oh! I’ve seen this! It’s all over my neighborhood!” I am gonna kill your hopes and dreams right now by saying what you are most likely seeing is Xanthoria parietina, which is super common pretty much everywhere and grows on just about everything. But, if your neighborhood happens to be a wind-swept, rocky, coastal habitat in Europe or northern Africa, this might actually be your guy! X. aureola is has a thick, golden-yellow to orange, foliose thallus made up of narrow, strap-shaped, overlapping lobes. It rarely produces apothecia, which are flat, round, and concolorous with the upper surface. It grows on nutrient-rich or siliceous rocks and cliffs along the seashore, and occasionally on walls and old wood.

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Diplotomma venustum

Venerating celebrities is out, venerating lichens is IN! Public figures will let you down and devastate you emotionally but you know who would never do that to you? D. venustum. They’re your unproblematic fave now. Deal with it.

This crustose lichen grows in thick, white rosettes dotted with black or chalky gray apothecia. It colonizes calcium-rich rocks and human-made surfaces in open areas of northern Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and Greenland.

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Montanelia disjuncta

Dark lichens are easily overlooked compared to their flashier cousins, but when you get up close and personal, you can see how stunning they truly are! This strongly lobed, foliose lichen grows in rounded rosettes closely attached to vertical, siliceous rock. It has a dark olive to brown to black upper surface, and a dark, rhizinate lower surface. It produces dark brown to black soredia, and only rarely, sorediate-encircled apothecia. M. disjuncta grows in boreal and montane habitats in North America, Europe, northern Asia, and central Africa.

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Teloschistes capensis

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Candelariella coralliza

Naming a kid anytime soon? Have you considered the name Coralliza? And they can go by Liza, and people will be like, “oh, like Liza Minnelli?” and they can be like “No, like the lichen.” This crustose lichen is described as coralloid, or coral-like in growth form. It grows in 2 mm thick patches of cracked, grainy, bright yellow thallus. It has flat-disked, yellow apothecia, often with a gray or black tint. C. coralliza is ornithocoprophilic, meaning it likes to grow where there is lots of bird poop! So you can often find it near coasts or high in the mountains, growing on rocks and roofs frequented by perching birds. Maybe not what you want to name your kid after, but maybe it would be a reminder that even beautiful things can some out of shitty situations.

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Cora timucua

I’ll be honest with you–not a big fan of April Fool’s day. Maybe because I am gullible, or not clever enough to think of my own pranks. So instead, I am sharing what I *hope* is an elaborate prank lichens are pulling on us–The Timucua Heart Lichen Project.

The Timucua Heart Lichen (Cora timucua) is a species of lichen endemic to Florida and the only species in the genus Cora to have inhabited the United States. It is named after the Native American people who lived in Northeast and North Central portions of what is now Florida. While historically its range included large areas of Florida, the only areas where the lichen has been reported in the second half of the 20th century are the Ocala National Forest and the O’Leno State Park. Despite its showy appearance, the species has not been collected or observed since 1985, so it is at least critically endangered or possibly even extinct. The main goal of the proposed project is to conduct an extensive and cooperative search for the species throughout its historical range and areas where the species could potentially grow, to investigate if it still exists in the wild and if so, to propose actions for its conservation. The search will engage a diverse group of people, including scientific experts, lichen enthusiasts, land managers, and the general public. Cora timucua grew primarily on shrubs in the endangered Florida sand pine scrub ecoregion, of which only 10-15% is estimated to remain intact. Thus, the majority of the search effort will be conducted in that ecoregion.

I hope dearly that this gorgeous pal is just hiding somewhere out there, and we will find it alive and well in due time.

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idiosyncraticrednebula:

I really hate it that whenever a man is abused or disrespected, people are ALWAYS looking for excuses to justify why that was done to them or they start questioning his side of the story. “He could have cheated” “He probably hit her first” “She was probably stressed” “He probably did something to her” and this shit happens A LOT. People really don’t take male victims and men’s emotions seriously in general because society views men as disposable objects whose feelings and emotions don’t matter because they lack them anyways and everything that happens to them is their fault and it’s well-deserved. I’m so tired of seeing this toxic, sexist bullshit. It’s because of that mentality that a lot of men don’t come forward with their experiences about the abuse they endured because society won’t take them seriously and instead, they will get either mocked or shamed. I already expect someone to come into my notes saying “Well, it’s their fault ‍♀️”, which is gonna prove my point. Don’t claim you care about victims but dismiss and disrespect male victims

With all that’s been going on surrounding some bad ppl using Patreon right now (here,here) i’d like to state that you’re info is always safe with me.

Different situation but i have enough people reaching out in asks that want to be answered private which is another form of respecting someone’s privacy and boundaries. The lengths some ppl go to, to track if someone posts their paywalled CC somewhere else baffles me. I heard some of the names of those creators, they also dabbled in other drama’s in the past so i’m not surprised.

Doxxing someone is never okay. It’s a community for a freakin’ game. Messing with someone’s real life is completely f*cked up and uncalled for. Don’t want ppl to share you’re paywalled content? Try sharing it after a period of time. You’ll actually gain a bigger following because of it. Besides, i’ve you’re spending this much time on tracking(!) cc than you’re most likely keeping your content subpar bc of it. Some of them i would never give money to since the quality is soooo bad (and alpha cc, so not my ride). Ugghhhh fdlfdgklkg i’m so over stuff like this.

I personally never understood the need of emailing/messaging a creator for a share link for CC on Patreon (why not include the files in the cc post?). I’m not going to say/suggest, “don’t support creators like that” bc i don’t know the reason for them using this system and again, likely most of them aren’t bad ppl with a ill will!!! But for tracking purposes; if a creator wants to track their cc, it needs to be send out like that. Not attached to a patreon download post. Additionally, package files can be altered in S4S (or altered textures, etc) before sending them out individually to patron’s.

Please know that these are a few bad seeds among a bunch of fantastic creators that would never do the stuff they do! Like with everything else in cyberspace, you always have to stay vigilant in the steps you take/things you do/info you share, etc.

EDIT:this is a very insightful and helpful post of how to treat Patreon and what i, as a creator, can see from you! thanks @llazyneiph!

It’s better this way. Lonelier, but better

2020 what a year right? This pandemic has literally pressed a pause button on the world, travel plans included . This lockdown has given us all cabin fever, so when SA’s lockdown status was dropped down to level 1 we were all so happy to finally go outside again. Those who know me even a little bit know that I am not a fan of physical activity but when my sister suggested we go hiking I said…

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