Why you ask is it the time? Well, the poison ivy has no leaves so tis easier not to get a rash. However, beware that you can still get a rash if you handle the vine or stems of it. But beside winter being an excellent time to avoid the poison ivy, it is a great time to look at the lichens and mosses!
Pixie Cups Lichen! Do you think the fairies had a great New Year’s party?
This Cladonia lichen was helping to hold the soil.
The capsules on the Fissidens mosses must have been torches for the fairies? Fissidens mosses are easy to recognize with the flat arrangement of their leaves.
In this photo the Turban Lichen seems to be taking over the Atrichium angustatum moss.
Many of last season’s capsules remained on this Atrichium angustatum. Its setae (stalks) are quite tall.
This peg lichen was a new for me. It is the Cladonia acuminata. Unlike the usual Turban Lichen, it has many more branches for the apothecia (brown fruiting body).
Nearby, the Yellow Scale (Psora icterica) with it black apothecia resembled miniature green flowers.
Two little mushrooms topped this foliose lichen. I think the mushrooms may have been the antenna for the fairies’ new technology. LOL
So many Pixie Cup Lichens were seen that day. Yep, I would say they (the fairies) had not picked up the New Year’s goblets yet. It must have been wild party. 😉
The more you know, the more you see and the more you see, the more you know
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One of these days youre going to catch those fairies having a party. Might have to go out on a new years eve. I cant wait for those photos because for sure theyre out there.
Champagne Glasses! not Pixie Cups. They are stemware.
Love your little fairy stories.
And I do miss mosses. Too dry here most of the time. Lots of lichens and that one liverwort we have and one fern. You have definitely have a lot and a lot of variety! Thanks for sharing.
One of these days youre going to catch those fairies having a party. Might have to go out on a new years eve. I cant wait for those photos because for sure theyre out there.
Ha ha…it will have to be a remote fairy camera. Cause I sure won’t be up the late😂😂
Champagne Glasses! not Pixie Cups. They are stemware.
Love your little fairy stories.
And I do miss mosses. Too dry here most of the time. Lots of lichens and that one liverwort we have and one fern. You have definitely have a lot and a lot of variety! Thanks for sharing.
Champagne…ha ha ha. Wished you had more too. And that is why visiting North Texas again is good. (Besides visiting your family 😉
Congrats on the new Cladonia!!
Thanks!
I love the fairy torches. Interesting article about the correlation between planting trees and reduced mortality.
Enjoyed your comments on this one. You should do standup comedy.
You’re funny😉😊 but thanks (I think)😊