Seed ball/infructescence reduced to its constituent parts...
On rock. I am not sure! It’s hard to tell.
On serpentinite boulder; with pictures of spores.
On rock under old-growth manzanita, south-facing, lots of sun but dappled shade.
Found growing on disturbed soil next to a trail in the Great Swamp
Seeds reticulate with grooves; leaves with apiculi; fruits longer than sepals; glabrous througout; petals much shorter than sepals, 5-merous
Fertile fronds on stone wall.
32 × 32 mm blue-gray thallus on Pinus mugo var. mughus (S07-39) with Flavoparmelia caperata
On acidic rock. Specimen collected 2009-09-12; photos shot in lab 2010-03-25. Det. K. Knudsen, 2010.
blue apothecia of Mniaecia jungermanniae on Cephalozia bicuspidata
@georgeg: thank you!
box full of raccoons!
feral cat feeding station
On wild red maple tree, Staten Island
In bog in Staten Island; bracts with 4 lobes or more; clusters of gemmae at branch tips.
At a wet pond edge. Not sure, it doesn't look too similar to the online pictures of Bryoandersonia. But I don't know other options. What looked like terminal spines are present on the costae; axillary hairs present; margins sometimes revolute; leaves strongly concave; mid-leaf cells not very long.
thallus K+ y to r. spores not examined.
18 × 16 mm thallus with apothecia ≤0.5 mm on brownstone, K+ purple
Growing in a tree pit with other weeds
6 × 8 cm thallus, upper surface K+ yellow, medulla K+ yellow turning red, on trunk bark of Quercus tree
20 × 7 mm thallus with apothecia ≤0.2 mm on bark of Prunus serrulata ‘Kanzan’ (E40-17)
immediately above the same species with different thallus texture and apothecia color: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/75247120
apothecia ≤0.2 mm on bark of Prunus serrulata ‘Kanzan’ (E40-17)
immediately below the same species with different thallus texture and apothecia color: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/75247119
on cherry
Verrucaria? On siliceous portion of rock wall. It's not Acarospora fuscata.
on Gymnocladus dioicus tree with Xanthoria parietina 📷
host to lichenicolous fungus Athelia arachnoidea 📷 on brownstone mausoleum (Young 1857) with a gray crustose lichen 📷
lichenicolous fungus on an orange crustose lichen 📷 on brownstone mausoleum (Young 1857)
on brownstone mausoleum (Young 1857) with an orange crustose lichen 📷
Breaking and entering, that is, eating, a black willow bud.
on top of stone wall
pictured damp after rain
on Quercus alba
With Myriolecis sambuci
there is a row of 16 kentucky coffeetrees planted on the east side of the park, which opened in 2014
Mimus polyglottos, northern mockingbird, in Ilex verticillata in my backyard, February 2021
PLACEHOLDER: apothecia over 1 mm; hypothecium brown. Awaiting verification.
on marble gravestone
New Moon Mycology Summit 2019, day 4: Thurman Baptist Cemetery
On tree bark near base.
On pyrus. likely an import from southern state, but there is a significant amount of it.
on Cornus florida bark
Swimming with eyes under water in the shallows.
Green 10 × 10 cm thallus with marginal linear soralia containing whitish soredia becoming darker and granular centrally, lobe tips bluish-white pruinose above and white below with black rhizines, growing on trunk bark of Acer sp. in front yard of Woodstock Laundry; pictured wet.
on siliceous gravestone. Less than a US nickel in diameter
Mimus polyglottos, Northern mockingbird, in Ilex verticillata in my backyard, January 2021
Top of wooden post used as guard rail along road.
On lichens on street tree bark.
on a sandy eroded slope in Long Pond Park, Staten Island; note the divisions in the second photo are 1mm.
Leaf asymmetric; basal lamina cells pitted; propagula present; on a soil mount in a swamp.
On tree bark.
1st time finding it here. completely black lower surface. Marble gravestone. ID verified by James Hinds (by photo).
pale lower surface. ID by James Hinds (by photo). cement
Ice meadows, Hudson River, Nature Conservancy, Warrensburg, Warren County, NY, October 2020
Nonvisible crustose thallus, crowded apothecia with dark orange disks and slightly paler margins, growing on exposed wood of Morus alba ‘Pendula’ cemetery tree along west side of Battle Avenue between Bay View and Landscape Avenues; close-up ×17.
On root soil mound of a fallen tree.
18 × 18 mm thallus on gravestone
colony of 11 × 11, 8 × 8, 11 × 11, and 3 × 4 mm thalli on gravestone
NYC-Native Hypoxis hirsuta, yellow star-grass, blooming in my front yard, April 2016