8.16.26 Volo Bog (non-bog lichens), Ingleside, IL

After walking through the mushroom-peppered field, you look closely on the surrounding bark and steel sign posts. Both support an almost alien world of lichens. There seem to be two dominant types: a citrus-colored one with a minute, leafy texture and a much largely leafy one with a blue main body and covered in purple-red cups. But on the branches above and the plastic boardwalk below, more lichens await...


Mealy Rosette Lichen (sea foam-colored lichen), unidentified Rosette Lichen (blue), and Candleflame Lichen (yellowish)

Two different species of rosette lichen

Detail on the Mealy Rosette Lichen

Unidentified rosette lichen growing on some cool wood

Unidentified asco mushrooms. All asco mushrooms belong to pezizomycotina, except for Neolecta, which these are not

Mycena corticola mushrooms with bright ble Rough Speckled Shield Lichen, along wit other lichens

Such cute lil' shroomies. Such a big, bright lichen. And what luxurious bark!

Bark dominated with Candleflame Lichen (lime-lemon colored)

Mycena corticola and lichen friends

Rosette lichens (bluish) and Candleflame Lichen (lemony-colored) on rusty iron, among others. Definitely not a natural lichen substrate, but a neat adaptation!

unidentified shield lichen among others

Lots of Mealy Rosette and Candleflame lichen

Crust fungi and Rosette Lichens

Candleflame Lichens abso-toot-ly thriving on some, y'know, corten steel. Real neat adaptations here!

Unidentified lichen on faux-wood texture plastic

Crowded Parchment (orange crust fungus) and lots of green lichen

Leiobunum politum with some corten steel lichens. Leiobunum politum is a harvestman, or spider relative that has a completely fused torso, solid-food diet, and is likely omnivorous.


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