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

Pendunculate Oak, Quercus robur. Bedelands Farm LNR Big Wood, Burgess Hill. 09.02.24 (LWLWD)

 

 

Habitat: .Ancient Woodland, including Quercus robur; Hornbeam, Carpinus betulus and Wild Servive Tree, Sorbus torminalis

History: previously part of the larger forest of the low weald

Location status: Bedelands Farm Local Nature Reserve

Woodland Trust Ancient Tree Inventory number: N/A

Public accessibility: open public access

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Lichens:

Parmotrema perlatum,Black Stone Flower

 

Ramalina farinacea,Farinose Cartilage Lichen

Lecidella elaeochroma,Lecidella Lichen

Evernia prunastri,Oakmoss

Parmelia sulcata, Shield Lichen

Physcia tenella,Fringed Rosette Lichen

 

Mosses:

Oxyrrhynchium hians,Swartz's Feather-Moss

Cryphaea heteromalla,Lateral Cryphaea

Hypnum cupressiforme,Cypress-leaved Plait-Moss

 

 

Liverworts:

Ferns:

Other non-epiphytc organisms:

Exidia glandulosa, Witches' Butter