Reach out and touch
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Red alert
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Happy New Year, everyone!
A prickly glow
Delicate folds
Very rare shell, perhaps
Cracks and wrinkles
He looks so sweet and cuddly ... no?
Survival of the fittest
Have to love those males
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Deep pink
Beauty beneath
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I need you
Welcome little visitor
I'm lichen this mushroom
Bubblewrap
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Little green elephant
Bald is beautiful
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Long-time passion
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Monarch butterfly
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Welcome spring
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Up, up and away
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Little cutie
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A thrill, times two
En masse
In loving memory of Pearl
Mum
Candy cane dreams
Where did Autumn go?
Helmeted Guineafowl
Textured cap
Hello, colour!
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Layers
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A little pink universe
Hawkweed seedheads
Orange Hydnellum fungus
Lichen on rock
Lichen
Autumn colours
Gramma's Eyebrows
To chase away the snow
In the light
Not my best side
Scaber Stalk
Shock
Curled
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Pink Soapwort
Beauty at its finest
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Joys of the forest
Like teeny blueberries
A touch of sunlight
A little green crawly thing
Groovy
About to face the world
Red Clover
Orange on bokeh
Unidentified caterpillar
Poppy pinkness
Rattlesnake Fern
Pretty in purple
Purple Avens
Internal fireworks
Cabbage White Butterfly
Bold and beautiful
Colour in the forest
Yellow Pondlily
Cottonwood Leaf Beetle
Marsh Cinquefoil
Unintentionally suggestive
Shine
Wild Bergamot
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Usnea lichen
The pale green, more "feathery" Lichen growing from this branch is an Usnea species. Not sure what the darker Lichen is. Found growing in the forest at Brown-Lowery Provincial Park on 13th November.
"Usnea is the generic and scientific name for several species of lichen in the family Parmeliaceae, that generally grow hanging from tree branches, resembling grey or greenish hair. It is sometimes referred to commonly as Old Man's Beard, Beard Lichen, or Treemoss.
Usnea grows all over the world. Like other lichens it is a symbiosis of a fungus and an alga. The fungus belongs to the division Ascomycota, while the alga is a member of the division Chlorophyta.
Usnea has been used medicinally for at least 1000 years. Usnic acid (C18H16O7), a potent antibiotic and antifungal agent is found in most species. This, combined with the hairlike structure of the lichen, means that Usnea lent itself well to treating surface wounds when sterile gauze and modern antibiotics were unavailable. It is also edible and high in vitamin C." From Wikipedia.
"Usnea is the generic and scientific name for several species of lichen in the family Parmeliaceae, that generally grow hanging from tree branches, resembling grey or greenish hair. It is sometimes referred to commonly as Old Man's Beard, Beard Lichen, or Treemoss.
Usnea grows all over the world. Like other lichens it is a symbiosis of a fungus and an alga. The fungus belongs to the division Ascomycota, while the alga is a member of the division Chlorophyta.
Usnea has been used medicinally for at least 1000 years. Usnic acid (C18H16O7), a potent antibiotic and antifungal agent is found in most species. This, combined with the hairlike structure of the lichen, means that Usnea lent itself well to treating surface wounds when sterile gauze and modern antibiotics were unavailable. It is also edible and high in vitamin C." From Wikipedia.
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