WiseAcre Gardens

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1. Grammy Says:
   March 21st, 2009 at 12:55 am

   Those are way to awesome. Thanks for opening my eyes. I found fungus growing on the lower side of a tree in the swamp tour I took. in New Orleans. I would have never noticed if it were not for you waking me up to look closer. Thanks.
   Happy Spring to you!

   Grammy,
   Happy Spring and Squinting to you too! Try to find secluded places to get down for those closer looks or people might come up to ya and ask if you’re OK.

2. Monica Says:
   March 21st, 2009 at 7:50 am

   LOL, I’m visiting each of Ann Arbor’s 160+ parks this year and I just took a macro of some moss at one of them (post forthcoming)! No lichens, though, more’s the pity. I think they could be called horn of plenty or even bugle moss (after that gross but yummy snak with the same shape)!

   Monica,
   I’d like to fully explore the Adirondack Park but I should have started 40 years ago. I keep getting sidetracked by the ‘wild’ areas in my own ‘backyard’.

   I was thinking of Faerie-pipe organ as a description for these photos.

   Gross but yummy – worms gone gummy

3. HoneyB Says:
   March 21st, 2009 at 8:49 am

   I love your photos. I need to get the energy to get up and out and take pics. Maybe while I’m on “recovery mode” and supposed to be out walking I should take my camera – I may get some good pics myself!

   HoneyB,
   I know you have the energy. Seeing how much you do makes me believe it’s Time you don’t have Make sure you take those walks while on ‘recovery mode’. Don’t go and over do it though.

   Hey if you get hooked taking photos I’m not going to be held responsible if Grumpy goes hungry.

4. sharkbytes Says:
   March 21st, 2009 at 10:53 am

   Are there other choices for a lichen that looks like that other than Pixie Cups? I’m quite a novice, but I thought that one was easy.

   sharkbytes,
   There are other similar looking cups. At least they’re all in the same genus

   Cladonia chlorophaea – Mealy pixie-cup
   Cladonia deformis – Lesser sulphur-cup
   Cladonia gracilis – Smooth cladonia
   Cladonia fimbriata
   Cladonia coniocraea
   Cladonia multiformis

   These are the ones I’ve come across while attempting to ID the ones I photographed. I’m sure there are more.

5. rainfield Says:
   March 21st, 2009 at 12:05 pm

   I hid myself behind a tree today for a macro view on fungus. I thought I could find wonder but I was not an Acre Wiser, I saw fungus and again fungus, nothing more than that.

   rainfield,
   Don’t stand still too long. I’m afraid you’d start growing moss and fungus in such a warm place.

6. Kylee from Our Little Acre Says:
   March 21st, 2009 at 12:41 pm

   You’ve inspired me to head to the woods in search of such things. We do have this strange green crispy stuff growing on our half-dead oak tree. I need to go do some macro photography!

   Outstanding! Love the “pixie cups” even if that isn’t what they are really.

   Kylee,
   Check the stone ‘walls’ farmers have made along the crop fields if there are any in your area. I don’t know how rocky the ground is down there but up here by me if you take all the rocks out there’s nothing left

7. cindee Says:
   March 21st, 2009 at 3:28 pm

   Very pretty stuff(-: I think the Ice will come in handy about July!!!(-: I will be looking for some(-:

   cindee,
   Yea we’ll be wishing for wice once the heat and humidity sets in.

8. Ratty Says:
   March 21st, 2009 at 11:55 pm

   I like the way the lichen looks. I always imagine what it would be if they were taller than me.

   Ratty,
   It would be like living in the land of the Pod People. Best to just imagine than move there

9. Lisa Says:
   March 22nd, 2009 at 12:54 pm

   Similar landscape around here…we got 2″ snow night before last! Ah well, June is coming! (I like lichens too, ID sure can be frustrating-like wild mushrooms!)

   Lisa,
   I’ll be happy on April 1. Hard to believe but it will be 31 years of wedded foolishness

   Lichens, Moss and Mushroom – all make great photos but give me headaches trying to ID. I’m getting better with mushrooms – my 3 new field guides should help.

   Oh Yea, if interested you can see the shrooms I have identified on my website.

10. kml Says:
    March 22nd, 2009 at 8:03 pm

    I have never seen these type before – they are beautiful – and the angle you took them at makes them look like a little forest.

    kml,
    I believe their range is ‘everywhere’. These are growing in shade with just a bit of direct light in the summer. They’re also pretty small so you have to look for them.

    That was part visualizing the shot – part setting the camera down to keep it steady

11. Ellen Says:
    December 2nd, 2009 at 4:11 pm

    I think those are Mealy Pixie Cups – certainly look like a match to those in my lichen field guide!

    Cheers!

12. Usman Haider Muhammadi Says:
    June 9th, 2010 at 11:23 am

    i think lichens will be the best to study for Landscape conservation. what will be scope of that study in the future.

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