Peter Braubach

Das haben sie sich verdient.

There is one rule: if you want to bring it home you have to carry it yourself. All-the-way!

They would be allowed to bring home a whole tree if they manage to bring it home.

3 small folded packages made from post-it notes with lichen samples. 2 are mine and one is my son's.

Today however was the magic day - the 7yo found a lichen and wanted to take a sample home.

Several large sticks up to 2+m length leaning on the wall of our house.

A collection of stones, pinecones and sticks next to our door.

A folding basket with paper bags filled with my lichen samples from the last holiday. A long winters worth of work.

It's hard to deny kids their sticks and stones collection when I am the one bringing home the most samples. Though theirs are usually larger than mine.

Cladonia are still one of the most photogenic lichens. You cannot blame them.

There’s a nonzero chance you will die from a cancer that could have been curable because people who couldn’t pass 7th grade biology and are scared of things like “mRNA” and “riboflavin” and “walkable cities” decided to make their ignorance everybody else’s problem

I appreciate this - in all it's glory 🐔 🍌

Ich habe bis jetzt keine Aufnahme gefunden die an live heran kommt. Bei mir hat es den Fluch des inkompletten Ohrwurms bei dem man ganz genau weiß wie es weiter geht und dann doch nicht hmm Hmmm Hmmm mmmm

Neenee bei mir ist es die Umsetzung von Die Himmel erzählen von T. Füngeld fürs Posaunenwerk.

Keine Ahnung warum🤷‍♀️

W T F is this?

Nun. Jedesmal wenn ich an irgendeinen Ohrwurm denke falle ich auf ein sehr spezifisches Stück zurück. Selbst bei dem...

three cartoon characters are standing next to each other and smiling for the camera Alt: Ausschnitt aus einer Zeichentrick Serie mit Pferden

Bitte gerne.

Besser als das mit den Mädchen und den Pferden. Wie ging das nochmal?

I can hear this with the cellphone on mute. 🦡 🦡 🦡 🍄 🍄...

Maybe compare this with Marchantia sp. Maybe M. polymorpha but I'm neither an expert on Liverworts nor know the common species of the pnw.

Unicellular round alga with golden colour some circle structures inside.

Unicellular round alga with golden colour some circle structures inside.

Unicellular round alga with golden colour some circle structures inside.

Beautiful golden #algae - found while investigating some leprous #lichen on #moss (I think now I got all the tags together). No idea on the species of either; still they are beautiful!

A book titled Coniocarps - Rain shadow specialists, Coniocarpen - Regenschaduw specialisten by Klaas van Fort and Bart Horvers

A new book just arrived from the Netherlands. #Lichen #Mycobookclub. Now I'm also on the Coniocarp hype train! 📍 📍 📍

It may take time but its totally worth it!

Wow. Wonderful clean section! Thank you for showing.

Awesome! 🦣

Still working on this one. Nicer spore images in K/Ink/Vinegar but still no conclusive idea. So I did the hardest part: compiling the findings and reaching out to experts 🫠🫥

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From the terricollous species P. nordinii, P. bryophila and P. sendtneri mentioned in the manuscricpt P. sendtneri seems to be the best match but not fitting in every aspect. Last but not least the habitat (337m can hardly be called submontane).

This seems to be a comprehensive and helpful publication on Polyblastia. When applying the key from this publication I arrive at Polyblastia sendtneri so this seems to be my working hypothesis for now.

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Why do I always arrive at species "poorly known"?

I love your scale bar card!

Periphysoids with measurements.

Periphysoids partially swollen, sparingly branched 2-3,5(4) µm 4/3

Strange ascus

Stranger ascus

Clearly this requires further thought. Maybe I am completely off.

I would gladly take some advice! Spores seem to unpack only in K. I find it very difficult to get measurements and also have troubles to assess the no. of spores in asci (5-7)

Have you found something like this?
Any tips?
3/3

Cortex and algeal layer.

Perithecium section with pore and periphyses/periphysoids.

Spores in water. Some are large muriform, some submuriform.

Spores in K

all results I get do not really add up.

Some features would speak for P. sendtneri (spore size, cortex) but this is subalpine. Perithecia too small & spores too small for P. verrucosa. Overall nearly all Polyblastia seem to be alpine sp. 2/3

Macro photo of grey lichen crust on moss and soil with black perithecia

Detail of lichen crust

Furtherd detail showing brown, areolate thallus and black perithecia.

Section through 2 perithecia.

Todays #lichen is giving me some headaches. I was thinking of something along V. bryoctona or similar - growing on calcareous soil and bryophytes. However it has (sub)muriform spores that I find very hard to grasp. I think this is going somewhere to Polyblastia sp. 1/3

How brilliant is this www.weregildcalculator.com

Lendemeriella tornoensis - a lichen parasting on mosses in subarctic snowbeds :) As far as I know those are the only pictures of this species existing on the internet.

I took those during an excursion to Gistuskáidi late snow areas in subarctic Lapland, thx to Inka Kuusisto for showing :)