This #lichen an chaoticly fanged firework. The last of a spring walk behind the tennis courts. #FunghiFriends

These #lichen on this particular morning were so photogenic. The sun was just right and there colours and apothecia were expressing a healthy demeanour. Again Ramalina sp. growing in,around,with Chrysopthalmus teloschites #FungiFriends pretty pretty pretty

I like to think there are but I don’t have the science, yet - So I believe all are new discoveries : ).There are two lichenologists I know of who worked in Dunners- Dr Allison Knight (she wrote the field guide) and DJ Galloway (flora of NZ: Lichens) - I bet they’ve found a few new species.

So here I am snapping pics of Teloschites Chrysopthalmus and Ramalina sp. co-mingling so tightly, it’s hard t see where one stops and t other begins. And in same area I found this #lichen #FungiFriends looking like a Frankenstein made up from parts of each. Not that it means much, I just got fizzed

Zoomed out a little bit more - I like how ‘egg-yokey’ it looks plus all the spindly jaggedly claw teeth things.

A #lichen close up. These two lichen seem to be in each other’s pockets. I think they might have something special going on #Fungifriends

More of this #lichen again we find it alongside a Ramalina sp. #FungiFriends

Two #lichen here. Teloschites Chrysopthalmus and a Ramalina sp. sharing space on a bush that I have found on a hidden path on a new morning dog walk route that H and I started in Spring. I think these two have a special relationship and I’ll post a few more pics of the same for a while #FungiFriends

Every now and again I post a pic of my handsome and patient dog (this time after dip in harbour) here he is sitting by a dry sculpture, Kuri (Māori for dog) close to where I took lichen photos. Also, another photo, wider shot, of similar lichen from same location

The end of harbour-side lunch hour. Dog now soaking wet, staring at me from a boat access ramp. This #lichen making me scratch head. Are the apothecia old, blown out w hidden rim or are they rimless? I have three in mind which may be likely but I can save ID for another day. Pretty pic #FungiFriends

#lichen yellows are fantastic. Take a minute to find lichen and appreciate the colours and shapes. This one doing its own thing next to sea lettuce. Yellow with cilia at base that rise up and turn into ‘sails’ or ‘hooded sails’ not my words. I think they look like flames flickering #FungiFriends

This #lichen very hairy. Cilia tendrils reaching out out from blue green thallus tangled and tied up. The surface of the blue green tube-like lobes has a crystallised salt like texture. Similar to a pretzel’s. #FungiFriends also brown apothecia on their own #otago #nz #Ōtipoti #Dunedin

Here more photos of same. Showing their intertidal capability

The tide comes in, washes, the tide goes out and this #lichen loves it. Crowded together, apothecia with dark yoke centres so tightly packed their shapes are squished and irregular as if pushed in to a tube train at rush hour. Thallus is ghost-like no lobes but a hint. A pale shadow #FungiFriends

Iocation: once the base of a massive shield volcano. Millions of years of erosion carved out a 22km natural harbour, where we find this #lichen #fungifriends squamulous and hanging out with moss. Looking like the squamules found with Cladonia podetia. I wish I had a better photo. Will go back

More crustose #lichen the ones with black raisins, which my mind thinks look like demons emerging out of rocks back first, limbs and head yet to follow Many lichen own these demon apothecia I’m leaving the knowing til later Blue green foliose shield lichen top right with burnt edges #FungiFriends

A pale green #lichen manoeuvres, it seems, into another’s (crustose areolate white) space. atop the other lichen the pale green seems to change from green towards yellow. surrounding top and right, going unnoticed a black areolate lichen and yet more to the left of the green #FungiFriends #Otago

This #lichen everywhere and here also - the very harbour’s edge - thriving. If I am right with identification, one of the lay terms for this lichen is stone flower. A quick search on the net and you can buy these in sealed packs to flavour your curry #FungiFriends I’ll leave this one here though

This #lichen on rocks that are washed at high tide. Thick white thallus crusty. Lirallae (fruiting bodies)with no particular directional objective or design (dashes, y shapes, x shapes and s shapes) I have read that this is a native NZ species common on our coasts #NZ #Otago #Dunedin #FungiFriends

Yes, I’ve read that too. This lichen is, I think, a Stereocaulon sp. a rock foam, and likes to live in barren areas and on nutrient poor substrates - I think it looks like sea spray. Not sure if chemically it handles the salt in the same way as Xanthoria parietina but it seems to be doing well here.

This #lichen perhaps not totally submerged by the tide but close enough to get a good licking from its salty spray when it is high. A branched lichen looking like a miniature garden shrub; blue green fingers reaching out from its branches holding brown squishy fruit bags #FungiFriends #Otago

Wow. Beautiful!

Same lichen but zoomed out. The tide will cover all these rocks when in. The next few post I do will be taken from this area.

This #lichen drying out at low tide. Saxicolous. The whole thing is lichen looking like rock. I love that. I read that parts of this lichen are deeply embedded into its substrate. It gives off a weak acid and thrives on the minerals released by the slow chemical erosion #FungiFriends

When I post #lichen I search for it in my beginners guide or on the internet. If desperate, I will ask for help. This one is areolate, yellow to orange yellow. apothecia - yellow orange slightly darker than rim and thallus. On rock by pacific harbour looks like stars #FungiFriends

So there I am, thinking I won’t find much and the dogs now in the water and I am standing on the edge of the harbour wondering how easy will it be to dry this dog off and get back to work and then I see this #lichen looking like chalk & living an intertidal life #FungiFriends

A post by the harbour This #lichen looking pretty the top and there are more of you look closely. I wasn’t expecting to see much on this dog walk. Our harbour is busy and this end is practically in the city. So years of industry. I just thought I wouldn’t see much in the way of variety #FungiFriends

Down to the harbour for a dog walk and #lichen hunt. First up, this old favourite batting its black lashes lashes. Its ruffled lobes like waves - I thought fitting for the harbour location. The lobes lift as if the sea breeze is acting upon its thallus we can see its golden underside #FungiFriends

This #lichen green foliose with thallus seemingly all tubes, hollow fingers lifting up above one another, clamouring to get their tube mouths most exposed to the air, a clumpy lichen. On bark. Quite tiny not certain as to what it will grow up to be #FungiFriends