Sunday, November 30, 2025

Rags and bones

These are the last of the lichens from Roberts Lake. For now; there are always more. I collected a few fallen branches beside the trail and brought them out into the (still dim) light to take their photos on the hood of my car; a nice, basic grey for a background. These three were typical.

A bone lichen, probably Hooded bone, Hypogymia physodes. "Ubiquitous," says the guide book. It is "among the most pollution-tolerant of the macrolichens." (P&MK)

This may be the same species. Or not. Those 2 round pits on the tip of swollen lobes are something I've not noticed before.

And a rag lichen, Platismatia glauca. "abundant ... fluffy, disheveled, large-lobed"; the  guide book again.

And I carried all my collected branches back to the shade of the forest before I left.

Next: a lot of mushrooms. With critters. And I've since been to the estuary to look at mallards and to the dock, chasing kelp crabs. Coming up soon.

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Estos son los últimos de los líquenes que vi cerca del lago Roberts. Por ahora, pues siempre hay más.  Junté algunas ramas caídas al lado del sendero y los llevé al estacionamiento donde había mejor luz para sacar sus fotos.

  1. Un liquen "hueso", probablemente Hypogymnia physodes. El libro guía dice que son "omnipresentes". Es "entre los macrolíquenes que mejor toleran la polución ambiental". (P&MK)
  2. Otro que puede ser de la misma especie, o por lo menos una de las Hypogymnia sp. Esos 2 pocitos redondos en puntas infladas de los lóbulos es algo que no he observado antes.
  3. Un liquen de los que llamamos "trapos viejos". Platismatia glauca. "abundantes ... ondulados, desaliñados, con lóbulos grandes ..." (Macrolichens...)

Regresé todas las ramas a la sombra del bosque antes de irme.

Mañana; un montón de hongos. Con bichitos. Y desde esta visita al lago Roberts, he ido al estuario para ver patos, y al muelle, mirando cangrejos kelp. Estoy procesando las fotos ...



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