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Leptogidium dendriscum

Inland woollybear lichen

Is that a caterpillar? A caccoon? An gummy? No, its a lichen! And a friend. This precious little baby fruticose cyanolichen grows on thin, mossy branches of broad-leaved trees in cool-humid regions of the northern hemisphere. It grows in puffy, densely branching cushions of smooth to nodulose filaments. It is blue-green to gray to brown in color, with a shiny surface and jelly-ish texture when hydrated. It occasionally produces flat to convex, red-brown apothecia on the ends of branches. L. dendriscum has a Scytonema cyanobacterial photobiont that looks like this in microscopic cross section:

Just as cute on the inside as the outside!

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13633 Holstein Cow [2008 - 2017]

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