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Lichen ID

  • 12-06-2015 3:53pm
    #1
    sudzs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭


    I'm doing a project that involves 2 lichen species and trying to identify them is my first stumbling block! I thought maybe the orange one was Caloplaca thallincola and the white one an Aspicilia sp. But that's a bit of a wild guess as I know very little about lichens so hope someone might be able to help. :)

    I took the photos a while back but I'm pretty sure it's a granite headstone in a graveyard in Kilbroney, Co. Down - very clean air too.


    7NsjH9.jpg


    Egirc1.jpg


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  • #2
    Furez
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 128 ✭✭Furez


    Lichen is pretty crazy, just learned this year about them being a symbiosis of fungi and algae or cyanobacteria. Im surprised they have species naming. I must look into them too, there may be a 4th year project in there for me too, although Id imagine they're a very slow culture to grow.


  • #3
    mecksimay
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 ✭mecksimay


    Have you checked out the following website:

    http://www.lichens.ie/


  • #4
    sudzs
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,753 ✭✭✭sudzs


    Furez wrote: »
    Lichen is pretty crazy, just learned this year about them being a symbiosis of fungi and algae or cyanobacteria. Im surprised they have species naming. I must look into them too, there may be a 4th year project in there for me too, although Id imagine they're a very slow culture to grow.

    They are fascinating! I'd no clue about them until I chose them as part of a project. Yes, they take forever to grow, very old gravestones are usually your best bet if you want to study them!

    mecksimay wrote: »
    Have you checked out the following website:

    http://www.lichens.ie/

    Thanks will have a look now! :) Do you think I'm mistaken in my ID?? :o


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