| | S | M | T | W | T | F | S | | 29 | 30 |
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
5
| |
6
|
7
|
8
|
9
|
10
|
11
|
12
| |
13
|
14
|
15
|
16
|
17
|
18
|
19
| |
20
|
21
|
22
|
23
|
24
|
25
|
26
| |
27
|
28
|
29
|
30
|
31
| 1 | 2 |  » Stats |
Members: 50,142
Threads: 82,311
Posts: 853,029
Top Poster: glsammy (15,069)
| | Welcome to our newest member, Posbyonechop | |  | 
21-12-2006, 07:17 PM
|  | Moderator | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Nottingham
Posts: 15,069
| | | I'd help needed.
I'm sure you knowledgeable lot will know this one instantly, so can you please put a miserable fool like me out of my misery?  
Thanks! |
21-12-2006, 07:22 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 3,689
| | | Re: I'd help needed.
could be those cherry crab apples? i found a few weeks back...but yours look smaller?
im probably wrong of course
oooh or did you mean the lichen? lol |
21-12-2006, 07:25 PM
| | Moderator | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Nottingham
Posts: 15,069
| | | Re: I'd help needed.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Salter  could be those cherry crab apples? i found a few weeks back...but yours look smaller?
im probably wrong of course
oooh or did you mean the lichen? lol |
Sorry Dan, It's the Lichen/whatever I'm after! I should have made it clearer. The berries are Hawthorne. |
21-12-2006, 07:37 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 3,689
| | | Re: I'd help needed.
of course...crataegus monogyna...i was just testing you? ( not)
lovely bit of lichen/whatever though ! |
21-12-2006, 07:43 PM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Sheffield, FPRSY
Posts: 7,655
| | | Re: I'd help needed.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dan Salter of course...crataegus monogyna........... | Not all hawthorns are C. monogyna especially in the Midlands of England ... but I can't remember how to distinguish the midland hawthorn from the (unopened) fruit!  |
21-12-2006, 07:51 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 3,689
| | | Re: I'd help needed.
the leaves are less deeply lobed i think? but you do get hybrids too to confuse us. |
21-12-2006, 08:03 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Yorkshire Dales
Posts: 2,589
| | | Re: I'd help needed.
It looks like a Xanthoria species - a sort of lichen that grows on nutrient enriched twigs, fences etc. - seems to occur, often, where birds perch and poo a lot.
It's been a long time since I've looked at any lichens so could be wrong.
__________________ Rob
More photographs at my Website |
22-12-2006, 10:23 AM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2006
Posts: 3,689
| | | Re: I'd help needed.
well that would make sense with this one ? the branch seems horizontal so would be a poo catching perch for birds eating those "obvious" hawthorn berries which look nothing like cherry crab apples ! |
22-12-2006, 10:29 AM
|  | Knight of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Sheffield
Posts: 8,929
| | | Re: I'd help needed.
Hi Graham, your lichen is Xanthoria parietina.
John |
22-12-2006, 11:11 AM
| | Moderator | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Nottingham
Posts: 15,069
| | | Re: I'd help needed.
Thanks everyone. | | |
| Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes |  Linear Mode |
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
| | |
| » New Wildlife Posts | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | » New Environment Posts | | | | | | | | | » New Activity Posts | | | | | | | | | » New Community Posts | | |  Spammers! Yesterday 08:00 AM 5 Replies, 99 Views | | | | | |
