@Fritillaria2 oh cool! i was a bit afraid since i heard that there supposed to be so difficult to determine. but i somehow still believed that it must be possible to get some kind of knowledge just by trying... looking with a book and stuff...

@knittingsquirrel Some lichens are big and very easy to ID. Some are difficult. Easy to start, difficult to “finish”.

So, go ahead and start! “Ways of Enlichenment” is a good (English language) site. Other sites are good for learning how lichens “operate”. A good, local identification book is indispensable. Make it casual and fun and you’ll learn a lot. Lichens are weird, wonderful, overlooked organisms. It’s hard to get bored (but then I’m a total nerd.)

http://www.waysofenlichenment.net/lichens/

@Fritillaria2 ohhh thank you! I am pretty sure that the lichen (and maybe moss + fern too 😊😂😊) fandom gets me at some point :)

@knittingsquirrel Oh, mosses use a fair amount of microscopy. I kept thinking, “I won’t study those because that’s too much trouble”, and then wanting to use a microscope to look at pubescence to differentiate cat’s-ear from hawk-bit. 😬 Well, you just end up there, I guess. 😆

I popped back on to share a good website for learning how lichens work (English). And I follow an Austrian bryologist (mosses etc) on twitter. Lots of resources.

https://mobile.twitter.com/feldbotanik?lang=en

http://www.lichens.lastdragon.org

@Fritillaria2 thank you! I have been following Feldbotanik for quite a while 😊 (even though much of what they talk about is far beyond my knowledge as i know mainly about trees (and macroscopic funghi), but it's so nice to read it anyways: watching someone geek about plants!!!)

that is a big downside of not regularly using Twitter anymore: to miss this kind of single themed accounts..