Lichens on location - Booths Supermarket Settle

Ochrolechia parella 

Is it because I have been on Allan's course, or is it because I have some new glasses which once again let me focus on objects a hand's distance away rather than an arms length distance - that I am noticing lichens again?

Here we are at the Millennium Gardens at Booths (see the sign) looking at the millstone grit/coarse sandstone capstones of the wall. The rest of the wall is mostly acid sandstone too, but there are a few limestone rocks.

This big splodge is Ochrolechia parella



The diameter of my black pen end  in the pictures below is 8mm - just less than 1cm wide.

Ochrolechia parella 

This big lichen with a fimbriate edge, and no visible fruiting bodies on this specimen, is also growing on the grit capstones. It  is not possible to identify without fruiting bodies.  It must be growing quickly because it has grown over the edge of the moss (Grimmia pulvinata)

Candelariella vitelina

lecidella stigmatea

Lecanora polytropa  - On acid grit.

These next three pictures are al on hard limestone and they are a Verrucaria. The fruiting bodies make holes in the rock. They maybe Verrucaria baldensis since the fruitting bodies are less than 0.3mm diameter. remember the pen end is 8mm.

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Lichens of Malham Tarn House 2

 Allan Pentecost led a tour of the House on 25 Feb 2012- see The Lichens of Malham Tarn House Part 1  for the introduction to this tour.

 We start on the East facing side of the house - sandstone.

Looking at Candelariella vitellina and the flamentous green alga Klebsormidium crenulatum (Nuisance alga)

Klebsormidium crenualatum close up

Candelariella vitellina  yellow crustose lichen on acid rocks

Now at the front of the house - south facing - there is Acarospora fuscata

The brown on he right is the Acarospora fuscata and the black dots to thel left are a Lecidia

To be named shortly 1 - possibly more Candelariella vitellina

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Lepraria incana?

Looking at Lecanora intricata

Lecanora intricata

Fuscidia sp

Fuscidia sp

Porpidia tuberculosa - Cigarette Ash Lichen again

Rhizocarpon reductum

Rhizocarpon reductum

Rhizocarpon reductum

We have turned the corner and are now at the West facing wall - that you see as you come up the drive. See the waste bin on the left.

There is some Caloplaca citrina here.

Caloplaca citrina on the plasterwork

Lecanora albescens with a little Caloplaca citrina

Physcia caesia on the windowsill

We are looking at the Virginia Creeper.

Physcia orbicularis on the Virginia creeper.

Physcia orbicularis and other species on the Virginia creeper.

The small pink-brown dots  are Protoblastenia rupestris on plaster near the Virginia creeper

 Protoblastenia rupestris on plaster near the Virginia creeper

 Protoblastenia rupestris on plaster

 Protoblastenia rupestris on plaster 

Ramalina fastigiata quite impressive on the trunk - in summer it may be more shaded by leaves.

Looking at Psilolechia lucida

Psilolechia lucida

Psilolechia lucida

Psilolechia lucida

Back to the courtyard.

Other lichens posts:

1. Lichens of Malham Tarn House - 2    29 February 2012
2. Lichens of Malham Tarn House - 1    29 February 2012
3. Lichens of Malham Tarn Fen - with Allan Pentecost 29 February 2012
4. Lichens flourescent in bonfire light  5 Nov 2011
5. Opal Lichens Settle    CCG walk led by myself -  2 April 2011
6. Algae (and Lichens) for Beginners - Malham Walk with Allan Pentecost August 2009
7. Lichens Day at Giggleswick Churchyard with Mark Seaward 14 June 2009