Joe Hope @ Fferm Cefn Coch Farm

I'm so so sorry. This is a tragedy of greed and stupidity.

Moo to you too

I certainly have! I love it!

I heartily recommend A Fish Caught in Time: The Search for the Coelacanth by Samantha Weinberg - an excellent book on the rediscovery of this marvelous fish.

Hmm. I think P. triptophylla has it, but not as strongly. What others have you found it with?

I love these guys. Parmeliella testacea has a really distinctive smell of TCP!

Yes! Apart from the obvious (*waves at _all that_) I'm doing fine. Hope you're similar!

Congrats Guy!

There's something about the photographer's expression that looks a bit AIish, but I might be making that up. You're right, I don't see any obvious visual problems other than the speed, but then AI is continually improving.

If we're not at the point where it's impossible to tell, we will be soon.

I can't tell. What are the tell-tales for you on this?

I'm so sorry. That is a tragedy that should never have been allowed to happen. Your mum deserved better, and so do we as a society.

I'd say his letter does indeed provide ammunition for those he would call 'woke'.

Lush. I worked on the reconstruction of the turf room in 2010/11. Vertiginous!

I think we need to know more about Kleingold to assess whether this was justified or not.

JFC ... Unbelievable.

I had to go to the website cos I couldn't believe it wasn't a joke...

Obviously, because amazement is a human construct.

Without humans, who would be amazed?

In fact you're not incorrect! Lichens are symbiotic composite organisms, where a fungus provides most of the structure and exterior tissue. In this species there is a photosynthetic cyanobacterium as the partner, which is acquiring the carbohydrates which feeds the fungus!

I can tell you! It's a lichen!

To be more precise, it's a Dog Lichen - one of the Peltigera species and it's very likely Peltigera membranacea.

Very lovely!

Whereabouts are you farming Sarah?

Is this Chris by any chance?

Gorgeous. Both your pictured fabulous fungi are lichens - the stalked one is Cladonua, the other one I'm not sure, perhaps a Physconia?

I might adopt that for my WhatsApp status.

Ok .. I see there are owls everywhere now. Which is an unexpected bonus.

Hmmmm. Prior to the pub, they might have come with a wee carry out from the offie mind you.

Having said that, prior to the pub, the tree would have been a relative youngster. Perhaps there were other quercine grandees to be admired in the vicinity, long returned to the earth to sustain this one.

This took me a little while...

Count me in. I've been doing a lot of fieldwork in bogs and fens over the last couple of years and the more time I spend in peatlands the more I love them!

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Indeed. The joker's on them.

Mine too.

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