{"id":9824,"date":"2022-12-30T23:35:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-31T04:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=9824"},"modified":"2023-06-30T11:44:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T15:44:46","slug":"lichen-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2022\/12\/lichen-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Lichen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_6890-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"Granitic rock with a gray-green crustose lichen growing on it.\" class=\"wp-image-9826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_6890-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_6890-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_6890-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_6890-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_6890-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_6890.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Porpidia albocaerulescens?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This crustose lichen caught my eye while out walking today. I was especially taken by the dramatic apothecia, those dark gray spots outlined in a very dark gray. Unfortunately, I didn&#8217;t bring my hand lens with me, so I couldn&#8217;t take a good close look at the apothecia. But here&#8217;s what they look like when I blow up the photo:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_6890-1-1024x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"Close-up of the above photo, showing the cup-like apothecia a little bit better.\" class=\"wp-image-9827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_6890-1-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_6890-1-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_6890-1-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_6890-1-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_6890-1-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_6890-1-1200x1200.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/IMG_6890-1.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I believe this lichen is Porpidia albocaerulescens, which is sometimes called the Smoky-eyed Boulder Lichen. However, identifying crustose lichens accurately seems to require a rock hammer (to get the sample off the rock) and a chemistry set (to carry out the chemical tests used for identification).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#FungiFriday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This crustose lichen caught my eye while out walking today. I was especially taken by the dramatic apothecia, those dark gray spots outlined in a very dark gray. Unfortunately, I didn&#8217;t bring my hand lens with me, so I couldn&#8217;t take a good close look at the apothecia. But here&#8217;s what they look like when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2022\/12\/lichen-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lichen&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[945,845],"tags":[675],"class_list":["post-9824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-se-massachusetts","tag-lichen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9828,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9824\/revisions\/9828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}