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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

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 💚

patch of moss growing on a concrete wall. it's very round, like half a sphere, with green leaves which have a white terminal hair giving the patch a silvery sheen. the yellow light from the setting sun hits the moss from the side, highlighting its very pleasing round shape. you want to pet that moss delicately with your fingertips.
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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?

picture of a thin tree trunk covered in lichens with a few patches of moss
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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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close up picture of the extremity of a pine branch, with the brown buds surrounded by a crown of dark green needle leaves, topped by a layer of ice that has formed a frozen drop, transparent enough to see the green tree through
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Jailed for the crime of being the cutest moss around...

picture of dark green moss patches growing on gray rock surface. They're backlit by the sun, which highlight the moss in pale green, yellow and white. a metallic grid above the rock is visible, giving a slightly oppressing feeling
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BW picture of 3 tree leaves taken at night but lighted from behind by an unseen street light. The leaves are long with frilled edges and their veins are visible
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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.

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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