Land Coral

[xinyan]

ok maybe the title is a little misleading but here are my thoughts. has anyone noticed that lichens on land are very similar to corals. they have entrusting. cup shaped. erect forms. they also rely on algae or cyno bacterial for a lot of their nutritional needs. growing on rocks or wood. they also are very sensitive to pollution and most species vanish from cities. they grow slow. are very colorful. if one kept them one would need to monitor air quality and remove pollution for the more delicate types. they also have many creatures that live in on and around the lichens. it's basically a land coral.

 

[Is this the LFS]

ok maybe the title is a little misleading but here are my thoughts. has anyone noticed that lichens on land are very similar to corals. they have entrusting. cup shaped. erect forms. they also rely on algae or cyno bacterial for a lot of their nutritional needs. growing on rocks or wood. they also are very sensitive to pollution and most species vanish from cities. they grow slow. are very colorful. if one kept them one would need to monitor air quality and remove pollution for the more delicate types. they also have many creatures that live in on and around the lichens. it's basically a land coral.

Never thought of it. Let’s add a fish and see how it does

 

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You should frag it

 

[Goodair]

You should frag it

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Looks l like super colored and hand picked tabling Lichen, 500$ a frag and chaos green trumpet lichen 300$ one of a kind. Bumblebee hazard splash yellow encrusiting montipora lichen. 350$ a frag.

 

[xinyan]

limited edition mount Everest WYSIWYG blizzard speckled utter domination frag 0.1mm starting at 299.99 shipping not included

 

[Hornet]

There's also this Mushroom (Calocera viscosa) that's called the sticky coral mushroom in the Netherlands :).

 

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That's a land leather coral..... the others are sps

 

[PicassoDan]

Interesting - I didn't know lichens and algae formed symbiotic relationships.

I'm looking forward to the future when humans implant algae in their skin.

Human coral.

 

[SuncrestReef]

3 years ago lichen helped identify two major air polluting businesses in Portland, Oregon. Read this article: https://www.outsideonline.com/20760...al-moss-uncovered-air-pollution-problem#close

 

[SandJ]

And Tardigrades (water bears) live in it!!!

 

[sharpimage]

Ill take an order of land mushrooms. wink wink

 

[Is this the LFS]

3 years ago lichen helped identify two major air polluting businesses in Portland, Oregon. Read this article: https://www.outsideonline.com/20760...al-moss-uncovered-air-pollution-problem#close

We have a ton of lichen here in Portland which is a good sign. Always makes me happy to live somewhere where people really care about the environment

 

[brad shawn]

Ill take an order of land mushrooms. wink wink

Those kinds aren’t for sale on R2R ! Lol

 

[PicassoDan]

Just came across this article on how lichens are symbionts between not two, but three or more different organisms... Two different fungii and a bacteria, for example.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/how-lichens-explain-and-re-explain-world/580681/