Rob Yaxley

Can any lichenologists confirm if this is Alpine Bloodspot (𝘖𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘰𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘢 𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘴𝘢) 🔴

I'm guessing quite acidic geology up there?

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Unmistakable! 👍

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1) They live on Norfolk Wildlife Trust reserves.

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I also found it on a second church I looked at today, so it could be “widespread and overlooked”!

North walls of churches can have a distinctive lichen flora. This is Ingaderia vandenboomii, a pinkish sorediate species with a dark prothallus. New for Norfolk at Yaxham church. One you predicted I believe @sylviad.bsky.social ? 👏👏

A large cedar tree with a path running underneath the branches.

An area of mossy lawn with several creamy cup fungi growing amongst it. The lawn joins onto a concrete block wall of Norwich Cathedral.

A whitish-cream cup fungus with rayed edges, embedded in moss.

A whitish-cream cup fungus with rayed edges, embedded in moss with Dandelion and other leaves also visible.

I took a detour on the way home from work today to Norwich Cathedral to have a look at some nice specimens of Cedar Cup fungus, Geopora sumneriana, found recently by @jeremybartlett.bsky.social (and a previous subject of one of his blogs: www.jeremybartlett.co.uk/2025/03/16/c...)

A proper early spring day, with chiffchaffs, mining bees, displaying marsh harriers and real warm sunshine™️. Sweaty work measuring peat depth…

Pertusaria lactescens. The book says it is often found on sandstone headstones, which is where I found this. Thurning churchyard, VC27. K+ yellow>red, C-, P+ yellow.

A small bit of Rhizocarpon geographicum at Weeting churchyard yesterday. The slate church roof is covered in it, but only tiny amounts have found their way to a ground level granite tomb top. Abundant in west Uk, scarce in the east.

Placidium squamulosum at Weeting Heath today, also a chance to see how the translocation of Gyalolechia fulgens is going.

The best lichen of the day today was probably Lecanora albella on oak bark at Winterton - Horsey Dunes. K+ yellow, C-, P+ yellow. Tiny thick-rimmed apothecia.

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Photo of several Cladonia podetia that look like cream coloured trumpets (growing vertically) with the trumpet openings ringed in red.

Cladonia sp #lichen
#Newfoundland Canada.
Lichens are about 3cm high
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Yes, I feel I need another visit already! C. rei is a great record, haven’t definitely seen it elsewhere in Norfolk, though I did have a suspect at Cawston Heath.

Blue shieldbugs in the garden this morning, courtesy of WW*

*wonderful wife

Well jel

A good day at Felbrigg Great Wood with Norfolk Fungus Study Group. Best for me was this Pyrenula macrospora, another western species not at all expected in Norfolk.

Looking upstream along River Waveney at Falcon Meadow near Bungay on summer's day.

Lecania cyrtella : England : VC27 East Norfolk : TM3389 : January 2026 : On Salix trunk

Lecania naegelii : England : VC27 East Norfolk : TM3389 : January 2026 : On Salix trunk

Trapelia glebulosa sens. str. : England : VC27 East Norfolk : TM3489 : January 2026 : On wooden gatepost

Serene Falcon Meadow on River Waveney at Bungay just shortlisted by Gov't for official wild-bathing designation! Otters, kingfishers and… #lichens! Recently spotted: Lecania cyrtella, L naegelii, Trapelia glebulosa sens str. All firsts for wider area. Likely common but not well-recorded in E Anglia.

Yes, it was quite a twitch that one!

A moist and exciting trip to Grimston Warren today, with lots of good lichens seen including Diploschistes muscorum and Cladonia macilenta, as well as Ramalina fastigiata. Conifers were removed 27 years ago, and the heathland has come back really well including the lichen flora.

Lichen Tortrix Acleris literana on some lichen at Roydon Common today. I do enjoy finding moths in their natural resting places.

Parm sax comes in 137th with 61 records😆

Probably unproveable, I guess a combination of numbers of records and widespread distribution would be the best you could do.

F. caperata is No 31! And I think it’s inceasing.

Norfolk’s 30 most recorded lichens. No surprises that Xanthoria parietina tops the list, but is it really the commonest species, or just the most noticeable/ recognisable? About 14 of these species are mainly found in churchyards…

The brackets you can see are like fruits. The bulk of the fungus exists as thread-like hyphae within the wood. So scraping it off won’t make any difference I’m afraid!

Not really my time zone, but it could be something like Fuscporia gilva, a bracket fungus. Likely to be bad news for the tree, causing rot in the heartwood.

I see these fantastic things on most church walls I look at, especially in the warmer months…I assume they eat lichen.

Depends where in the world you are, and quality of photo etc but I can have a try, maybe….

Two nice finds in today’s cold and bright conditions. Physcia clementei on a sycamore at Barrow Common, and Agonimia tristicula on a wall at North Creake churchyard, which had well over 70 species of lichen.