Lichen Time lapse
Lichens can often appear "dead" if it hasn't rained for sometime or simply no fogs or other forms of moisture to hydrate them. This amazing symbiotic life form/s, (fungal/algal) existing from the south pole to the northern hemispheres, encountered across countless environments, needs water like many living things for reproduction to occur.
Lichens can live for many many years and colonise everything from synthetic substrates (such as painted surfaces) to natural, endure high saline conditions and extreme UV irradiation, produce compounds capable of dissolving rocks and contrary to popular belief actually grow rapidly for some species, capable also of living in extremes of nitrate levels. These are just a fraction of what this amazing life forms are capable of.
Once it rains though they "move" rapidly to show their true forms.
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Lichen and moss are the best
@francischeefilms
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Absolutely fascinating and form a major part of the beauty in forests etc globally.
Oh my God, this is absolutely wonderful image. Like a work of art.
Opening shot, Xanthoria sp.
So awesome! Great work :) What's fun and interesting about mosses (I think anyways) is you can completely kill them, so there is no green left and they are curled up, and just put the dried out husk into some humidity, and will 'reanimate' and open back up as though it's alive again, even though all the cells are dead! Crazy
@francischeefilms
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Absolutely! Like they can reman in "suspended animation", add water, hey presto and wow, such beauty! Thanks for watching!
I really love those images. Is it possible to know the names of the plants?
@francischeefilms
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It is possible some o the yellowy orange colored one belong to the genus Xanthoria sp. and some green ones seen could be Hypogymnia sp.