Elegant Sunburst Lichen

Oh my, now that you said that they are as clear as crystal! I vow to go back to this very rock on Cape Point and take more closer pics of all! Thank you very much arlanda!

Very nice spotting Smith'sZoo. You have a lot of lichens on that rock, not only the whitish one on the rock side but also all the round greyish spots you can see in pic 5 between the Xanthoria ones. Surely crustaceous lichens, like Caloplaca sp.

Thank you so much, ill make the changes. And thank you for compliment, tricky to get an angle so one can see that it is not just flat, i see now in pic 2 there is a whitish lichen on the side of that rock i have missed.... will have to go back for more pics!

You have a lovely patch here btw.

Sorry I should read more carefully. You're right - we are putting them in fungi category but for missions it's probably not fungi. I would say lichen mission only.

Hi Mark, thank you, do you think I should remove from mushroom mapping and add to to the lichen mission instead?

Hi Smith'sZoo... lichens are self-supporting associations between fungi and photobionts (algae or cyanobacteria). As such the best category we have for them is fungi at the moment.

yes, it is our rainy season and it was very wet in Cape Point this year. Ill look into it and make the changes... you learn something every day!

Yes, I think so. It's the Maritime Sunburst or the Elegant Sunburst Lichen - hard to differ, since this specimen looks in a pretty juvenile state and it appears that it has been rainy or humid.

Is this a lichens and not mushroom then? and therefore in the wrong mission? anyone?