Sunlit Green and Growing Things

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#sorry to take away from the rightful love of lichens but damn i wanna know the geology of this place it looks wild

Trillium, wood sorrel, and millipede at Redwoods National Park in Northern California. 

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i took some pictures last fall look how pretty they are :D chilling on a log with some moss and fungi

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Cladonia imperialis

I hate Ernst Haeckel with the deepest loathing, he was a terrible human being. He is famous for this and other historical lichen illustrations:

And you may recognize C. imperialis from the left-most figure. When I first saw this drawing, I noticed that he has taken some artistic liberties with some of the species I recognized. And I had wondered for years looking at his illustration how much creative liberty he took when drawing that guy on the left, since I hadn't ever seen it. But credit where credit is due, it looks pretty darn similar to the pictures and preserved specimens pictured here. SO terrible person, descent artist, I can give him that. Still hate him, though. This fruticose lichen has verticillate (arranged in whorls) podetia with spreading to recurved scyphi (cup- or goblet-shaped projections on the podetial stalks) proliferating from the center of lower scyphi in 8-17 tiers, up to 31 cm tall (likely the tallest terrestrial lichen in the world!). It is green-brown to brown in color with a darker, melanotic base and smooth surface. C. imperialis is native to the mountains of southern Brazil, and grows taller in higher-elevations regions.

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Common Green Forest Lizard (Calotes calotes), male, family Agamidae, Kerala, India