Lichens on a Small-Leaved Lime, Tilia cordata, at Buxted Park SSSI 06.08.24

Buxted Park is an old deer park consisting of a variety of unimproved grassland communities with parkland trees and areas of woodland which as a whole support a large invertebrate population. It lies on neutral-acidic soils over Tunbridge Wells Sandstone, Wadhurst Clay and various superficial deposits in the valley of the River Uck 

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These lichens were on this Small-Leaved Lime

On this section of a branch these lichens be seen

Parmelia sulcata Usnea cornuta

Pertusaria pertusa Pyrrhospora quernea Physcia tenella

Melanelixia glabratula

(The blobs on P. quernea are spots of sodium hypochlorite and potassium hydroxide, for ID testing purposes).

 

Probably Putussaria pertusa

 

Melanelixia subaurifera

Evernia prunastri

Flavoparmelia caperata

 

Lecidella eleaochrima

Xanthoria parietina and Parmelua sulcata

Ramalina fastigata

Putusaria leioplaca

Leprarai incana

Phlyctis argena

Lichens at Limpsfield Common, nr. Oxted, 20.05.24

Limpsfield Common is just in Surrey, just north of the West Sussex-Surrey boundary. It is managed by the Nation Trust: see: Limpstead Common for more information.

Limpsfield Common is on the Greensand Ridge, and is semi-natural ancient woodland and heathland. The trees on which these lichens were growing were Quercus robur, Fagus sylvatica and Betula pendula

Ramalina farinacea

  

Pamatrema peralatum

Parmeilia sulcata

 

Lecidella eleachroma

Hypotrachyna afrorevoluta

 

 Arthonia atra

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Graphis scripta

Cladonia coniocrea

Xanthoria parientina

Lichens on three Wild Service Trees, Torminalis glaberrima, in woods north-west of Cow Fold, 16.04.24

I examined three Wild Service Trees near Cowfold. All three had the same lichen community growing on them.

 

 

 

Habitat: Low Weald ancient woodlands on clay. Ancient woodland status suggested through presence of Yellow Archangel, Bluebells, Wood Sedge, Midland Hawthorn, and Wild Service Trees

This map showing the location of these tress is from Dave Bang's The Land of the Brighton Line: A field guide to the Middle Sussex and South East Surrey Weald (2018)

Lichens:

Possibly Buellia griseovirens

Lepra amara Bitter Wart Lichen

Flavoparmelia caperata Common Greenshield Lichen

 Lecidella elaeochroma Lecidella Lichen

Pyrrhospora quernea

 

 Possibly Punctelia jeckeri Powdered Speckled Shield Lichen

 

 Hypotrachyna afrorevoluta

 

Mosses:

Hypnum cupressiforme Cypress-leaved Plait-Moss

 

Liverworts:

Frullania dilatata Dilated Scalewort

 

 Metzgeria furcata Forked Veilwort

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Significant organisms near the tree:

Crataegus laevigata Midland Hawthorn

Hyacinthoides non-scripta Bluebell