The Brown Elfin Saddle of western North America. A healthy specimen of left and on the right one infected by the fungal parasite Hypomyces cervinigenus.
Xanthoparmelia cumberlandiandia. These lichens may be immortal. See the New YoK Times article: nyti.ms/VtDY79 . Photographed at Point Reyes National Seashore.
Kohler's Medizinal-Pflanzen in naturgetreuen Abbildungen mit kurz erlauterndem Texte :.Gera-Untermhaus :Fr. Eugen Kohler,[1883-1914].biodiversitylibrary.org/page/303706
Eerily beautiful, today's #bhlpod features some of the fungus among us (in temperate zones anyway) Phyllactinia guttata biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34482177