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Here I post my amateur pictures of moss, flowers and whatever else I fancy, as well as toot/boost a variety of topics and puns.

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Possibly a Porella?

closer pic of the same, you can see the scaly aspect of the leaves which grow almost nested in one another

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From Grimmia, with love 💚

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I'm told Grimmia pulvinata is the most common round here so probably that

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It's time for yet another ID attempt based on insufficient evidence~ (but sufficient enough to get to crack those guides).

Found 1200m high in Vercors (France) on a tree bordering a clearing, we have possibly here:

  • Fruticose on the left: Ramalina... farinacea? But no flour aspect...
  • Brown ones: Melanohalea something?
  • Foliose grey: ... Too blurry, an even unsurer Parmelina?
  • Moss: something Orthotrichum?

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Assuming they are the same species, and I wouldn't bet on it, here's a closer look of the and the brown parmelioid (a term cribbed from Wikipedia)

green-brown foliose lichen with rather wide apothecias

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My guide for tree lichen indicates 'no risk of confusion' for Ramalina fraxinea, so I will present this one with slightly less doubt.

(The green one on the bottom right looks interesting but alas, I did not take a picture focusing on that one, I'll admit I was taken with all the other fruticose lichens on that same tree)

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'What other fruticose lichens', you ask?

Well, those two, which could very well be a Ramalina fastigiata in the right and... A Ramalina also on the left but it looks different and I'm reaally not sure which one. Another fraxinea?

another grey-green lichen but shorter, with flat apothecia at the apex of the branches

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Jailed for the crime of being the cutest moss around...

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I mentioned walls of moss, but I am tragically unable to choose just one picture worth my delight at this short but intensely mossy path. You can breathe the green just looking at the pictures.

🗺️ Ornans, Doubs, France (somewhere between the Belvédere de Barmaud and the Château de Scey)
📆 2024-05

Same as the first image, but taken further along the path
Photography of a straight forest path surrounded by natural, uneven rock walls/embankments 2 to 3 meters high. The rock is not actually visible because it is covered in a thick layer of moss and a few additional plants here and there. Trees with thin trunks and green leaves are growing at the top of the embankments on both sides.

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