I found Red-fruited Pixie Cup lichens (Cladonia pleurota) two days ago and posted this photo on iNaturalist.
iNaturalist postet it as observation of the day on three pages.
Here is the result in likes and % of their followers of these pages:
Instagram 961, 0.88% of the followers liked it,
Facebook 249, 0.32% of the followers liked it,
niX 193, 0.29%.
I don't use any of these three platforms.
Now, with only 20 likes my Mastodon followers could win. 😉
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I looked at your photos again.
At my first view it irritated me that you wrote that this lichen grows on the boulder. I think the lichen doesn't grow directly on the boulder!
When looking closer, one can see many wooden textures in front of the boulder and also a thin layer of soil on top of the boulder. That's where your lichen grow.
With no visible "stems", and wood or soil it grows on, I'm pretty sure it's the Icmadophila ericetorum lichen, also called Candy Lichen.
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I think it's a lichen.
Unfortunately I can't see wheter there are short "stems" underneath those pink apothecia or not. Without short stems it should be Icmadophila ericetorum. If there are short white stems under those pink apothecia it is Dibaeis baeomyces.
So Laurie, have fun to find it out! 😉
A few days ago I found this particularly beautiful lichen for the first time, rare in our area.
This lichen belongs to a special group of difficult to identify Cladonia lichens. I think it's the Cladonia coccifera, formerly known under the common name Eastern Boreal Pixie Cup lichen.
Apparently, according to iNaturalist.org, this lichen has now been renamed "Madame's Cup Lichen". Why? 🤷♂️
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