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[OM] Re: Isle Royale photos finally webbed out

Subject: [OM] Re: Isle Royale photos finally webbed out
From: "Jeff Keller" <jeffreyrkeller@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 23:58:58 -0800
I had heard the name spanish moss used in California, but that appears
to apply to something entirely different on the east coast.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_moss

-jeff

On 2/23/07, Scott Peden <scotpeden@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Funny you should ask,  just saw some in Big basin last weekend and was
> amazed, something wasn't familiar with. If I am seeing the pic correctly, it
> is flat rather than round like the Usnea, right?
>
>
> I'll ask my fellow docent, Karen, who is ahead of me on the Lichens and when
> I get a response, I'll let you know!
>
> Actually I decided to see what I could find.
>
> Check out
> http://www.lichen.com/portraits.html
>
> and see which of these are your Lichen, since I can't get as good of a pic
> as I wished I had (and that these were even better, but they are better than
> most)
>
> http://www.lichen.com/bigpix/Eprunastri.html
>
> http://www.lichen.com/bigpix/Rstenospora.html
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Moose
> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 9:24 PM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: Isle Royale photos finally webbed out
>
> Scott Peden wrote:
> > Then 'specs' I was given for Usnea was 98% pure air, at the HQ of Big
> Basin,
> > 19,000 acres large, the stuff is uncommon at the parking areas, but 1
> block
> > away it shows up and 1/4th of a mile away another lichen that requires
> 99.8%
> > pure air starts showing up.
> >
> So what's this stuff? Is the one on the right Old Man's Beard, Usnea
> <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/MPhotos/Calif/PtLobos/Lichen/>?
>
> This is just down the road from you.
>
> Moose

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