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Pixie cup lichen

Cladonia chlorophaea

Photo by shebebusynow
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Field Notes

Description:

Light green lichen with disc-shaped fruiting bodies on stalks. The discs were slightly scaley and not a deep green.

Habitat:

dead wood within a coastal temperate rainforest of spruce, hemlock, Douglas fir and alder

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (5)
shebebusynow
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.
KarenL
Hi shebebusynow! Please consider adding this to the Symbiotic Relationships mission - http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/7987627
shebebusynow
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?
shebebusynow
I debated the category for a while; glad to know they should stick with Fungi.
Dan Doucette
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/7365198

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PublishedOctober 1, 2011

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