The Life of Lichen
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- Explore the fascinating world of lichens with James Stevenson, UF/IFAS Pinellas County Extension Specialist.
-Produced at the Brooker Creek Preserve Environmental Education Center
-Starring James Stevenson
-Written by James Stevenson
-Edited by Julia Myers
Imagery courtesy of Brooker Creek Preserve staff and Canva.com unless otherwise noted
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Lichen and Moss
two of the most underrated forms of life
the diversity and ability of adaptation is unbelievable
Wow! James Stevenson is a terrific presenter. He made this informative and interesting. I hope to see him some more.
It is interesting 🥰👍
That is an excellent explanation about lichen. James is quite a gifted speaker/presenter.
Absolutely fascinating! This answered a great many of my questions and has inspired me to go off for yet another walk in the woods!
That's what we love to hear! Thanks so much for tuning in and for the feedback!
Lichen this comment.
You've answered a question I've had since childhood when I came upon the stick like lichen. I thought I was looking at the tiniest plant blossoms I had ever seen. Now I know it was fruticose (British soldier). And it only took nearly 70 years for me to get this answer. Thanks.
I find it fascinating that, at 65 and pretty seriously disabled physically, I still find benefits from continuously learning new things or answers to very old questions. I’ve been studying mycology as an amateur and, though I’ve read that there’s an association, this is the first actual explanation of that association that I’ve seen.
Interestingly, very often when I learn something or really get into a topic, I frequently find myself using that knowledge for the benefit of myself or someone else. Sometimes it’s a person that I meet at the hospital or a business associate of my son, people that I meet randomly, that need the very information that I’ve been studying. So, at our age, we become the storehouses of knowledge. We can disseminate it to people that don’t know where to look. I’m a devout nerd. There’s gotta be a reason that I’ve always thoroughly enjoyed learning new and strangely weird things!
I’ve been fascinated by lichen for years, and have had many questions about the differences. This lecture has answered these questions. I will need to watch this many times as I want to absorb this information and remember it.
Thank you for this wonderful, understandable description of Lichen! I've always been curious, but never got around to looking it up.
I learned so much about Lichen through this video and an event at Learning Gate when we walked about the campus and a USF grad student showed us all the different forms of fungi. My favorite was the bullseye or rainbow lichen.
Awesome!
This is great! At an outdoor ed school on the coast of California, I taught kids about lichen in early 2000’s, and we said that story about the 2 taking a liking to one another. 🙏 Happy to see an update and get a botany refresher. 💋
Fascinated by your presentation, better than a movie. Thanks professor 👍🏻
This was so informative. James continues to be such an amazing presenter. He teaches botanical facts in such a way that it’s fun, understandable and interesting for the audience. Great video!
I love cloudy damp days early in spring and later autumn, the Lichen shows of it's colors and might even bloom!
Wow! This video is so fascinating it deserves many more likes and views! So much information.
Thanks so much! :)
Many thank yous for this. Very enjoyable watching. A week ago I went up to Mt. Laguna in CA and saw some beautiful lime green lichen growing on trees. Such wonderful, unique, fascinating living structures!
I cried watching this! Did anyone else cry? I love nature
Came here from the 2018 National Geographic film about a third partner in the lichen symbiosis. This video contains more essential info about lichens than I learned in my entire biology studies...
I don't know why this channel has only 2k subscribers. Great content
I’m “lichen” this informative presentation.
LOVE the delivery!! I am now a lichen fan✋🤚
A fantastic presentation! Thank you so much. Really great, I look forward to more. Billy Weprin
We get lots of lichen on rocks here in NM. I’ve observed but not studied them. This is the best explanation of lichen I’ve ever seen. I’m an amateur mycologist, growing gourmet mushrooms. Now I’m gonna have to take a magnifying glass out to look at the lichen on those rocks considerably more closely!
I never quite understood lichens and this video cleared up many confusions I had. thank you for making this extremely educational video and it's really fun to watch!
Wow, very informative! I love this stuff 🤓
Glad you enjoyed it!
What a fantastic video. Thank you!
Edit: extra points for providing a link to your sources!!
Very eyeopening, inspiring and well explained information about an overlooked and totally underrated organism. Great!
Couldn't subscribe fast enough. Loved this and learned a lot. Thank you
This was fantastic, thank you!
Brilliant video, have seen so many confused presentations but this properly explained it all. Thank you
Very informative. I'll watch this again to try to understand this unique group of organisms.
wonderfully explained!
Clear specific coverage thanks
There are moments when all worries and losses have subsided in the boundless serenity and peace of nature.
Very interesting. Nice to get an explanation that's detailed but succinct. They really are fascinating organisms
Very well explained! Thank you!’
Great presentation and very informative!
Glad you liked it!
Very interesting indeed. thank you. I learned a lot that added to my awe of nature and respect for even what we don't know about ourselves.
Well done!
This is so informative and the presentation is really engaging. Thank you-I’m going to try to observe some lichens today with this new info.
Fascinating! Thank you!
I was not expecting this video to call out the prison-industrial complex 👏👏👏
Fantastic video. I'll be sure to look for lichen from now on!
thankyou. this was great. very well done
I don't know why but fungus mushrooms and lichen have always been the most interesting organisms for me.
Great video. I've been playing tag along with a friend of mine that's illustrating a book on lichen and haven't been paying attention. The book release is next month and I'm trying to get up to speed on what lichen are all about. She taught me the basics but I feel like I really learned a lot from this video. Thank you for posting.
Beautifully presented sir, and offcourse lichens are everywhere with different colors and texture.
Fantastic! Well done!
Fascination! I can’t say that I understand the relationship that creates lichen nor could I comfortably label it if I saw it but I know more now that I did 20 minutes ago. And, bonus, I remember lichen in the woods where I grew up. I’ve seen it with my own eyes! All this time I thought it was a secret organism I had missed!
Wow..im really Lichen this...thnx..im now a fan..
🥰 thank you UF!
Amazing and informative. I was interested in growing lichen but I now understand how complex that would be.
Great video
Excellent new (ish) stuff with the yeast and bacteria. I'm not so keen on the prison metaphor though. I'd always thought of the fungus part as providing a modular cloche stack, or like the thecal cups of the oceanic graptolites. ( I read Geology so it always pans out that way) . Eihter way. Great little lecture... xxx :-)
Thank you!
amazing and underrated video
Thank you!!
Great video... can't imagine trying to remember all these crazy names
Wow!
New Sub, Great video!
Cheers,
Chris
Totally awesome presentation, thanks James and BCP staff.
Thanks for watching, we appreciate the feedback!
Love the comparison chocolate peanut butter ! Make it memoriable
Is always good to see nemo
Not mentioned anywhere I can remember - lichens also exist quite successfully in Antarctica, and are being studied extensively.
Yea like one the only things that thrive there
He does talk about it tho at 10:40
How about the symbiosis of mitochondria and our microbiome in our lives? Quite obviously there’s a story here.
Thank You💖🧡💛💚💙💜 I live in archipelago with loads of lichen growing all over the rocks, trees and everything. With moss. Amazing looking creatures😍
Never heard nostic referred to as witches butter, but mares eggs. I thought witches butter to be the yellow Tremella mesenterica.
Thanks youtube, I took a lichen to this video!
That's an impressive Reeses cup, but does Lichen enrich itself self from their surface?
Nice, good to know I'm not the only one who thinks this is cool.
fungus algae bacteria yeast FABY Fabulous
Good video! l just happen to disagree with the origin. A tad ''Chancy'' indeed!
Strange, all this time I thought lichens were vampire fighting warewolves. Lol 🤔😆🤗
Me loved it. but i cant understand how this is not a plant or fungi or bacteria if its made up of all of them. XD. its a hybrid. i just call it that. every time I pass one I'm always like OMG the hybrids!!!!
8:29 so you mean basically anywhere except dirt 😂
Nostoc Skin
Terraform Mars with lichen......