Valentines Peak versus Fungi/Lichen

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Valentines Peak versus Fungi/Lichen

Postby Davo1 » Sun 12 May, 2013 11:03 am

I'm afraid on this day the Fungi won out. The top of Valentines was like pea soup with a brisk breeze so instead of traversing the ridge line to the end we pulled up at the first lookout, did I say lookout? couldn't see a darn thing.
As a result we decided to go and have a look at some fungi etc that we seen on the way up.
So heres a few pics , sorry about the quality of some but at least it gives an idea, wished I'd taken a tripod and Macro lens!
There's a bunch of pics so pse be patient.

And please don't ask me the names of any of them, because I would not have a clue.
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Re: Valentines Peak versus Fungi/Lichen

Postby Davo1 » Sun 12 May, 2013 11:07 am

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Re: Valentines Peak versus Fungi/Lichen

Postby Davo1 » Sun 12 May, 2013 11:10 am

some more
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Re: Valentines Peak versus Fungi/Lichen

Postby Davo1 » Sun 12 May, 2013 11:13 am

and more
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Re: Valentines Peak versus Fungi/Lichen

Postby Davo1 » Sun 12 May, 2013 11:16 am

Last ones
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Re: Valentines Peak versus Fungi/Lichen

Postby Clusterpod » Sun 12 May, 2013 11:34 am

Gorgeous!
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Re: Valentines Peak versus Fungi/Lichen

Postby Tortoise » Sun 12 May, 2013 1:41 pm

Yep, love 'em!
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Re: Valentines Peak versus Fungi/Lichen

Postby peter-robinson » Sun 12 May, 2013 1:48 pm

Excellent, thanks, fungi are fascinating aren't they!
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Re: Valentines Peak versus Fungi/Lichen

Postby Davo1 » Sun 12 May, 2013 2:45 pm

Thanks all.
Yes PR they certainly are.

If someone could answer this I would appreciate it - The 7th photo or 2nd in the 2nd batch shows some Lichen with some brownish pink circular growths for the want of a better word! Are these Lichen flowers(that is if LIchen has flowers) and if not what are they?
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Re: Valentines Peak versus Fungi/Lichen

Postby Clusterpod » Sun 12 May, 2013 4:36 pm

A lichen is a symbiotic relationship between a fungi and usually an algae or cyanobacterium.

The growths you are referring to are the fungal fruiting type reproductive formations called isidia, and they contain diaspores.

Though lichens can also reproduce asexually with soredeia, which is an asexual vegetative reproduction.

Fascinating stuff!

I can strongly recommend the book Fungi of Southern Australia by Neale L. Bougher and Katrina Syme (University of Western Australia Press)
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Re: Valentines Peak versus Fungi/Lichen

Postby Davo1 » Sun 12 May, 2013 5:15 pm

Clusterpod wrote:I can strongly recommend the book Fungi of Southern Australia by Neale L. Bougher and Katrina Syme (University of Western Australia Press)


Thanks Clusterpod, that must be one heck of a book. Cannot hire it from the local Library, have to go to another and read it. That's ok though, sounds like a task for a cold wet winters day.

Also thanks for the other info, the head is still spinning but we get the drift :) It is along the lines of our thinking but not quite in those terms :)

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