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Cladonia chlorophaea
Light green lichen with disc-shaped fruiting bodies on stalks. The discs were slightly scaley and not a deep green.
dead wood within a coastal temperate rainforest of spruce, hemlock, Douglas fir and alder
Spotted on Sep 23, 2011
Submitted on Oct 1, 2011
5 Comments
I'd be happy to, but could you call it symbiosis when the wood the lichen is living on is a dead log? I think the Indian pipe flower might be a closer fit.
Hi shebebusynow! Please consider adding this to the Symbiotic Relationships mission - http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/7987...
After visiting a mushroom show, I now know there are distinctions between the pixie cups, and the one with more "scales" is different from the smooth green cups. Anyone have a more accurate species name for this?
I debated the category for a while; glad to know they should stick with Fungi.
I spotted some of these too. I think the category should be changed though, lichen belong to the Fungi Kingdom.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/736...