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Happenstance Northern California, CA Mar 25, 2004

What's the consensus on putting odd things in the PDB....like a fungus? Here's a thread regarding a fungus, which someone has identified for me and I wondered whether there was interest in such things for ID purposes.

http://davesgarden.com/t/422737/

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htop San Antonio, TX(Zone 8b) Mar 25, 2004

Hppenstance, that's a good question. I have photos of lichen that I have wanted to post. I collect different kinds which are growing on rocks. I place the rocks in my flowerbeds. They are very interesting because they are made up of an alga and a fungus living in a symbiotic relationship and are perhaps the oldest plants living on the planet.

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Happenstance Northern California, CA Mar 25, 2004

Saw a news clip the other night, or really heard it while I did six other things. Believe it was Elk in Yellowstone that had been dying and they finally figured out it was some sort of Lichen that was poisoning them. Several hundred had died as I recall.

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Baa Mar 25, 2004

Fungi are in their own kingdom, not in Plantae kingdom. Also the correct identification can be made from a photo of many with larger fruiting bodies but to have a Fungi Database we may need to include the fungi with smaller fruiting bodies that will be impractical to try to ID from a normal photo.

Mosses and Lichens are part of the Plantae under division Bryophyta and Mycomycota respectively, however, it's not many mosses that are grown in a garden on purpose (granted there are some, and others that appear without invitation) also, we have the identicfication issue again from a normal photo.

Do we have any Bryophyta/Mycomycota/Fungi experts waiting to come out and shine?

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