I jump forward to this week as I was very excited to catch this #lichen on a forest walk barely taken by anyone. Trees felled from a recent storm made our way difficult and so much mud but I found a stump covered in this. The whole stump! It wasn’t small #FungiFriends

This #lichen Kapow an assault of colour from long ribbon lobes meandering to edge of its domain. Bright hot orange in the centre transitioning to a cool yellow. Surrounded by a display of hot orange gem stone lichen #FungiFriends

This #lichen attracted me with white on black contrast pattern made by the crusty, areolate white lichen with domed slightly pink apothecia growing on dark wet bark. a tiny foliose light blue/green lichen grows centrally its thallus bust open displaying soredia so young yet reproducing #FungiFriends

Still pushing through the wiry bush with my dog and here these #lichen #FungiFriends

This #lichen foliose. can’t remember substrate - was walking through bush on Lee side of an embankment, beach and pacific on other side. Most likely a bark then. Thallus green and cool yellow. Thaline rimmed apothecia some orange inside some a little greener. Is it a green Xanthoria P. #FungiFriends

This #lichen doing its thing. Something that switches me on. The gradual transition of one colour and tone to another. In this instance, hot orange towards a cool yellow. A gentle slide from one to another. I see these colour slides everywhere and I love it - nature is an expert #FungiFriends

The dog and I took a new route. Our usual is raised up from sea level. Engineered that way. It’s all reclaimed land on one side and the Pacific on the other. This #lichen is thriving in the wiry bush on the reclaimed side of the embankment #FungiFriends this has to be the most orangey one I’ve seen.

This #lichen a mystery. Black swollen rimmed apothecia at least one on a stalk. Really not sure what I am looking at. #FungiFriends can anybody shed some light?

This #lichen similar to previous post. Very close to ‘pink earth lichen’ in looks ‘cept it’s pink apothecia is not on stalks. Very tiny. Very close. Deep within the cracks of a thick barked tree which slowly grows by our rugby fields #FungiFriends

This #lichen protected deep in the bark crevice #FungiFriends

This #lichen one of my favourites - not sure why. I like the weird hairs and the gnarly salty skin crusts and its gentle colour. This was on a tree that borders the sports fields. The tree had a deep creviced bark so I was enjoying the focal difference and was playing with it a little #FungiFriends

This #lichen It is blending into the wall. Size of an LP. Saxicolous, crustose, areolate, cream coloured Thallus, guessing it might be endolithic, thaline rimmed black apothecia describe a general circle about a third in from the circumference. Edge of lichen is whiter than thallus #Fungifriends

This #lichen illusive - sort of. I think the world has given this lichen another name. A piece of paper came down Winston Smith’s tube, and the lichen’s name was changed forever. Corticolous, tightly packed soredia forming centrally and along ruffled ridges. Outer lobes flat large blunt burnt edges

This #lichen a tease. This poor dog waited for his dotty owner to throw the stick for more than the usual amount of time. He did get his desire in the end #FungiFriends

This #lichen ghostly #FungiFriends

This #lichen an Usnea sp. Close up. Quite tiny. Hiding in the railway sleeper not too far from the previously posted Cladonia sp. The last flurry of photos all taken on one walk around the tennis courts with my dog in a Southern hemisphere spring #FungiFriends we now head back to the football fields

This #lichen in the return from the loop around the tennis court I am back in the car park and looking into the cracks in the railway sleepers that fringe the flower beds #FungiFriends

More of this #lichen behind the tennis courts. I have started to see this type (Ramalina sp.) hanging out a lot with what I think is a teloschites sp. and i got the fanciful idea that there might be some sort of cross over. I’ll see if I can find a pic and post next to illustrate #FungiFriends

This #lichen on a native tree not certain which as didn’t photograph the leaves (foolish 😅) I’ve circled the tennis courts. There is a secret field here then bush rising up steeply. The sunlight gets in but the field holds water well. In the morning it is dew heavy and sun bathed #FunguFriends

These #lichen lignicolous and numerous. Lecanora sp. must be present but how many? #FungiFriends

This #lichen wriggling reaching farinose-sorediate podetia tapering to a point, minuscule brown/red apothecia, pale yellow to light green tip to base squamulous at base. On a railway sleeper that borders a garden in a car park #FungiFriends

This #lichen in the same location. The tennis courts’ car park. I pass by here when I walk my dog and this area calls to me over and over. So far, I keep finding new images worth taking. Same lichen types though #FungiFriend

This #lichen also hiding in the cracks of railway sleepers that border the tidy gardens that delimit the tennis club’s car park #FungiFriends

Not far from the white post, I am back in the tennis club’s car park. Where this #lichen hides in the shaded cracks of railway sleepers. Like a zombie from a grave, one eyeball watches as a bony hand waves #FungiFriends

This #lichen foliose. Long lobes (white crusty patina) long cilia (white merging to black points) black dots (potentially pycnidia??) in places the lobes burst open and the insides are exposed. All on a pebble dashed cement curb stone #FungiFriends

These #lichen herald spring from a white wooden sign post #FungiFriends

This #lichen on a white sign post near the tennis courts. We have our usuals hanging out. But if you look closer you will see a lot going on here #FungiFriends

Well, this #lichen! It’s base looking very much like one distinct lichen yet its ends looking quite like another!! Almost as if one was hiding inside another just waiting for the right conditions before bursting forth #FungiFriends

This #lichen a strap of blue green thallus thin flat wide. A Width narrowing at ends like a tendon where it might attach to bone. Gravity pulls this lichen straight down. The free end twisting about in search of a finish Bespeckled&crowded with satellite dish apothecia of varying sizes #FungiFriends

These #lichen looking great on my fruit trees #FungiFriends

This #lichen was photographed in spring. I have a backlog of images, everyday lichen, to work through. These lichen dare me to name them and I walk backwards with my hand outstretched and say no, no! I do not dare name you. One day maybe. I have an inkling #FungiFriends but I am a coward

This #lichen on my cherry tree corticolous (on bark) foliose (leafy) rosette (prizewinning) thallus (main body) punctate, pseudocyphellae (sprinkled with stardust) on laminal (upper surface) brown underside. Lobes (round leafy bits) overlapping and more centrally sorediate on margins #FungiFriends

This #lichen a close up. Corticolous Foliose Leathery light green thallus. Lobes tend to raise and ruffle into almost tubes at ends with Marginal Soralia #FungiFriends

This #lichen lirelae all on the same mission and lying aligned. Mostly. Pretty picture I think because of the foliose touches not the focus #FungiFriends

This #lichen corticolous, thin crustose thallus with lirallae - apothecia long tending to aline raised thaline rim. These script lichen easily passed by.Their unique fruiting bodies discovered only when one pays a little attention. Leans into the bush like a madman reading the text. #FunguFriends

In my recent posts I have stayed close to home. The #lichen are found in the city and parks where I walk my dog. I am not searching, just tuning in and learning how to look. This lichen on my radar as there are many similar here but they are not the same. Will be posting more as we go #FungiFriends

Wherever I point my camera with this bush in my garden, I see #lichen in abundance when winter comes the leaves fall and reveal this abundance. If you were unaware you might think the bush was dead and riddled with blight but the leaves return and the lichen is hidden in summer #FungiFriends

This #lichen display on my crab apple tree. The yellow (top left) like hot eyes. On the tree (middle-ish) spreading blue/green tentacles branched sinewy. Blown-out apothecia on laminal. Underneath, covering branch, a crusty rash of pink/light blue apothecia w white thaline rim #FungiFriends

This #lichen also on the same garden bush #FungiFriends

I have a bush in my garden that is absolutely over run with #lichen in winter and early spring the lichen is on full display. One in particular,Thin branched light blue/green lobes loosely connected to the substrate square-ish/blunt ends long black tipped eyelashes (cilia) I’m Nausicaa #FungiFriends

This #lichen tricky. There a number of possibilities to choose from here in South Island and when I read their descriptions it isn’t easy to separate one from the other. Especially when the photo examples don’t look like the descriptions : / The differentiation my new pet project #FungiFriends

This #lichen in a tree large fat swollen black apothecia looking like the back a of wingless muscle bound flies emerging from a white crusty thallus sharing space with white rimmed pink apothecia which reminds me of a jam tart. Guess that’s why the flies #FungiFriends

This #lichen another foliose garden resident. Displays white pseudocyphellae on a pale green (the colour of my grandmother’s 50’s/60’s kitchen cupboards) thallus. Sorediate ruffles on broad lobes light brown underside. A close up without a zoom out. Forgot the bigger picture #FungiFriends

This #lichen has found a home on one of my bushes. Yellow cups like satellite dishes firing off copies of itself into the ulu #FungiFriends

This #lichen in my garden has tiny red smaller than a pin head sized cherries. Not apothecia though these are wee spider mites #FungiFriends they turn up in a lot of my photos. Still in my garden.

This #lichen featured in previous two posts Corticolous Ruffled lobes Black hair-like cilia and Soralia on margins Brown underside Dark rhizines visible closer to centre underside Think this type might be used as flavour in some Indian dishes Yum If only I could trust my identification #FungiFriends

his #lichen a close-up of the previous. A white crustose lichen with coffee coloured apothecia. White thaline rimmed. Looking like a sweetshop delicacy. Touching borders with ruffled blue green lobes sporting dark hair-like cilia. #FungiFriends

Back in my garden. These #lichen quite familiar now to me. When you start looking you don’t realise that you are beginning a years long relationship where you return again and again to see how they are getting along. These photos taken at the tail of winter. #FungiFriends

This #lichen an ‘… and finally.’ Saving the best till last a substrate; the perspex cover from a substitutes shelter by the side of a football pitch. Seemingly dynamic. you think the larger is throwing out the smaller from its mass imperceptibly the offspring slide across the perspex #FungiFriends

This #lichen looking great #FungiFriends