Fungi or Lichen?

Paul IddonPaul Iddon Registered Users Posts: 5,129 Major grins
edited January 23, 2008 in Holy Macro
It is orange, flattish, and abounds on the soft wooden posts of my (decaying and rotten) gate...

I don't know if it is a fungus or if it is some sort of lichen. The former, I suspect, though which I don't have a scoobies!


lichen.jpg


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  • xrisxris Registered Users Posts: 546 Major grins
    edited January 22, 2008
    Paul Iddon wrote:
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    I don't know if it is a fungus or if it is some sort of lichen....
    I lichen your fungus shot!rolleyes1.gif

    Total guess, but I agree that it's a fungus.
    Nice shot!
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  • Paul IddonPaul Iddon Registered Users Posts: 5,129 Major grins
    edited January 22, 2008
    xris wrote:
    I lichen your fungus shot!


    ROFL...


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  • SkippySkippy Registered Users Posts: 12,075 Major grins
    edited January 22, 2008
    Paul Iddon wrote:
    It is orange, flattish, and abounds on the soft wooden posts of my (decaying and rotten) gate...

    I don't know if it is a fungus or if it is some sort of lichen. The former, I suspect, though which I don't have a scoobies!
    Paul.

    I thought that Lichen was more flat and disc like?
    These look like they are full and have thickness and body.

    Or why don't I just say........ I dunno what they are rolleyes1.gif:D

    They sit like they have dripped there from above.

    Nice shot Paul thumb.gif ... Skippy :D
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  • Paul IddonPaul Iddon Registered Users Posts: 5,129 Major grins
    edited January 22, 2008
    Heheheh, thanks Skippy. I think its a fungus...


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  • Lord VetinariLord Vetinari Registered Users Posts: 15,901 Major grins
    edited January 23, 2008
    Nice capture - I vote for fungus as well :)
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  • Paul IddonPaul Iddon Registered Users Posts: 5,129 Major grins
    edited January 23, 2008
    Thanks Brian.


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  • ArvanArvan Registered Users Posts: 888 Major grins
    edited January 23, 2008
    It´s some cybergenetic waste...:D

    Nice picture indeed..Im curious about what apparture you used?.
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  • bchaplinbchaplin Registered Users Posts: 19 Big grins
    edited January 23, 2008
    They don't look like lichens.
    I vote for fungi, maybe even a slime mold.
  • Paul IddonPaul Iddon Registered Users Posts: 5,129 Major grins
    edited January 23, 2008
    Arvan wrote:
    It´s some cybergenetic waste...:D

    Nice picture indeed..Im curious about what apparture you used?.


    F/11.0, 1/20sec, ISO 100.


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