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12 Comments

maplemoth662
maplemoth662 6 years ago

A beautiful photo....

ceherzog
ceherzog 12 years ago

Great...Lichen are quite interesting...you gave the the impetus to really start looking at them.

SarahWhitt
SarahWhitt 12 years ago

oopsy I mean Lichen!!

SarahWhitt
SarahWhitt 12 years ago

Again.....thank you, ceherzog!! I went with your info and found Usnea Luchen Australis which closesly resembles this! I appreciate your knowledge!! :)

ceherzog
ceherzog 12 years ago

I'm pretty sure this is a species of Usnea Lichen and the trap-like stuctures are the fruiting bodies. I'm just not sue what species of Usnea.
http://www.google.com/search?q=usnea+lic...

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

Yes.. we find some here in India too...from Droseraceae family.

SarahWhitt
SarahWhitt 12 years ago

Thanks ceherzog. I wasn't sure it was a Venus Fly Trap from the start. Whatever it is, I did think it was quite unique!! :)

ceherzog
ceherzog 12 years ago

This is not a Venus Fly Trap. They are not epiphytes but grow in bogs in North Carolina
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_Flytr...

It is some kind of Lichen

misako
misako 12 years ago

it looks so brittle--pretty cool.

alicelongmartin
alicelongmartin 12 years ago

Not normal for sure because they like damp feet. Maybe the bark caught a lot of water recently.

SarahWhitt
SarahWhitt 12 years ago

It very well could be something different than a venus fly trap - but it had all of the signs of one....the tree had a bunch of them just growing all over the sides of it. It was very interesting.

JeniferNikole
JeniferNikole 12 years ago

I've only seen them in movies! lol great catch =)

SarahWhitt
Spotted by
SarahWhitt

West Virginia, USA

Spotted on Nov 9, 2009
Submitted on Apr 2, 2011

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