Saturday, September 14, 2013

LICHEN AND THE LIKE - MICHIGAN # 6

I love the woods!  I grew up in the thick of the Northwest type, but I love immersing myself where there is 
different flora.  We hiked a lot in woods, never forgetting to look not only up and ahead, but down
and all around. Acorns are things we don't see much of here.





This type of what I am guessing to be "shelf lichen" was huge.
It covered the top of a large, ancient tree where it had been cut. The "fans"
were as big as tires:

And the delicate ones, along with oak leaves:



Hee, hee, this is not a mushroom, of course!  While the Queen Anne's Lace
 was long-gone here at home, some were just budding in  western Michigan, 
along the farm roads:

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