This gilt and black stamped on our copy of The Man in the Moon, and Other People (1874) is stoking our romance for the 50th anniversary of the moon landing. It does leave us wondering, who are these “other people”?
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Nodobryoria abbreviata
Tufted foxtail lichen
I have been really thinking I need a haircut lately. I can't pull off the long-haired, brunette look like N. abbreviata. This brittle, fruticose lichen grows on conifers in chaparral and coast-adjacent woodland. It has a reddish-brown, fruticose thallus, and flat, concolorous apothecia surrounded in a ciliate margin. Nododobryoria was only recognized as a sperate genus from Bryoria lichens in 1995 due to a difference in chemical composition and cellular structure. Goes to show you shouldn't judge a lichen by its thallus--it's what's on the inside that counts!