[NatureNS] lichen- correct ID?

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  Hi David and All,
      A few weeks ago while checking owl boxes with Randy Lauff on Tower Rd=
., Cape North I spotted what I thought was a lovely purple lichen on a dead=
 tree branch. Not having much time to check it in detail I snapped a quick =
pic and kept trekking to the next box. Later, at home, I was able to get a =
pretty solid ID. I call it the purple thread lichen. All the best.
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                            Fritz has a file to share with you on OneDrive.=
 To view it, click the link below.                                         =
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: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 09:50:56 -0400
Subject: Re: [NatureNS] lichen- correct ID?
From: dbmcc09@gmail.com
To: naturens@chebucto.ns.ca


















Nancy:
I have frequently admired the orange/yellow
lichens along the coast, but have never tried to figure out what species th=
ey
are.

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This morning I did a little searching.  I found three interesting sources, =
all suggest
it is Xanthoria, likely X. parietina, but that there are a few
other species in the genus in NS.

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Frances Anderson, associate with the NS
Museum, has looked at lichens in several locations in NS.  Of interest here=
 is a manuscript: =91Lichens of
West Ironbound Island, Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia=92  from October 2009 =
(http://kccns.org/include/docs/west_ironbound_lichens.pdf).  It includes a =
description of habitats and
which lichens are associated with each habitat.

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Patricia and James Hinds have studied the
lichens of Maine, including Xanthoria, see =91The lichen genus Xanthoria in
Maine.=92 The Maine Naturalist (forerunner of Northeastern Naturlaist) 1(1):
1-16.  Yes the very first paper in the
first issue of what is now the Northeastern Naturalist!  http://www.jstor.o=
rg/discover/10.2307/3858193?uid=3D3739432&uid=3D2&uid=3D3737720&uid=3D4&sid=
=3D21104360834137


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An amazing resource I came across was the
lichen section of the digitalmycology website.=20
http://lichens.digitalmycology.com/macrolichens/Xanthoria.html.  Great phot=
os and far more information than I
can comfortably process on a summer Sunday morning.
DBMcC

David McCorquodaleGeorges River, NS


On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 6:23 AM, nancy dowd <nancypdowd@gmail.com> wrote:

There seems to be a lot of very orange/yellow coastal lichens. Do I have th=
e correct ID on this one?:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/92981528@N08/14510974679/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/92981528@N08/14697633545/



The color reminds me very much of the Witch's Spit Fungus (Tremella mesente=
rica). Same pigment?



Thanks, Nancy




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