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

ThePerspex Substitute’s shelter beside an Astroturf football field (‘soccer’ field for our brothers and sisters overseas) is home to this #lichen also Different from the others It’s lobes thinner though manner the same and on its surface what looks like patches of a salty crust #FungiFriends

This #lichen like a #Hokusai cloud #FungiFriends

This #lichen also using the sub’s shelter, on the side of the football pitch, as substrate. With such a smooth surface to latch to without impediment, it is granted the ability to show full flare and do its best shield lichen display #FungiFriend

I am beside the football pitch. This #lichen joins three other types establishing themselves on the see through Perspex shelter of the subs bench. Very tiny only just begun. There are others here much bigger #FungiFriends

This #lichen I have been itching to show. Large, like really large, spotted lobes from the centre of its spreading thallus. Covered in in isidia. Smaller smooth pale green lobes seem to unfurl from the pimply body in chaotic order a perfect contrast heightened by their dark burnt edges #FungiFriends

This #lichen down by the tennis courts. The car park here, in its early conception, was delineated with railway sleepers. Tarmac now has been laid around but has not entirely obscured the sleepers that skirt the flower beds and mark the entrance and exit. Here is where I find these #FungiFriends

This #lichen type an old friend. I am now walking my dog around football tennis hockey cricket educational sports facilities the city’s indoor rugby stadium Tree lined footpaths that shed branches and leaves in high winds well tended grass and Astro turf Here this lichen a heart shape #FungiFriends

And this #lichen on the road back, if you look really closely, get so close that you are seeing grains of sand, here you will find this lichen, surviving in the valleys of gravel and road chips #FungiFriends

I turn now and walk the 1.5km back down the road On one side the Pacific Ocean w Sea Lions in the right season On the other A golf course, sewage farm and a crematorium When the wind is loafing about, humanity’s taboos reach your nostrils. This #lichen farewells #FungiFriends from the turning circle

These #lichen in another collab. On a small weathered bush at the turning circle. For exercise, not just for lichen, I skirt the perimeter (need this to make up my Ks), my dog checks the pockets of passing dog owners, and occasionally the lichen will jump out at me #FungiFriends so I have to stop.

This #lichen there on the verge at the top of the cliff that affords views of the pacific horizon. Little black dots on this too. And Cilia gone wild it seems. Some short bit some long and thin like hair #FungiFriends

These #lichen all hanging out together on a tree close to the turning circle on the cliff. There is something - little black dots - perhaps a parasitic fungus or some such, though I wouldn’t know if that were a thing or no - still, here they all are hanging out together on a tree. #FungiFriends

This #lichen hiding in plain sight. On top of the cliff, there is small 60’s construction that memorialises a person in concrete blocks. That look like they are stained a little with age. But if you care to look closer. Look what you find #FungiFriends

These #lichen on a fence that skirts the turning circle at the end of the ocean drive where I walk my dog a beautiful colour contrast #FungiFriends

This #lichen like the sun. Swirling golden prominences cast into space from areas of intense localised heat. Found on the bushes that skirt the turning circle of the ocean road where I walk my dog. This cul-de-sac hides amazing and wondrous things if you care to look #FungiFriends

And so again This #lichen the end of the ocean road, a steep incline and a turning circle for the cars that do not come A great place for me to take a breath before heading back and also peer at fences walls and trees looking for lichen Of course this one is here looking for attention #FungiFriends

This #lichen on thick red tree bark. Crustose - no lobes. Brown apothecia, thaline rim found on the edge of a football field at sea level #FungiFriends

This #lichen everywhere in my city. On the the ocean road where I walk my dog, it lives on posts, trees and bins (in abundance) that line it. I found one example of it trying out a living on the road itself #FungiFriends #Otago #Ōtepoti #Dunedin #biology