i don't know what it is, just that it brings me joy
edit: it's a misidentified moss. 34 years old and still learning new things everyday
Whose going to tell them?
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i know it looks like a straight moss but this is a moss/fungus lichen colony.
My guess would be Peltigera but I'm on my phone in heavy sunlight.
Any other shots?
just the one. my dog was needing to keep moving. let me look up peltigera…
So in this case is the moss the photosynthesizer of the lichen symbiotic network in conjunction with fungi and yeast...?
maybe! i'm not well versed. all i know is that towards the edges you have the typical simple structure of moss but in the middle it's gotten to looking more like little yellow christmas trees
Looks like moss to me, I don't think lichenized moss is a thing. Some close up shots would help.
I asked the instructor of a lichen class I took a couple months ago and this was her response to the photo:
It's just moss with some dry spots in it. Mosses don't lichenize; the photosynthesizer is going to be either an algae, a cyanobacteria, or both.
today i learned!