Lichens: Corals of the Forest

You’ve probably walked past them hundreds of times. Devil’s matchstick, frog pelt, lungwort, and, of course, fairy barf. While these sound like ingredients for a fictional witch potion, you can find these and more on a walk through the forests of British Columbia. Let us introduce you to a symbiotic relationship like no other-the lichens.
Producer, Editor, and Videographer - Katrina Pyne
Videographer - Grant Callegari
www.hakai.org
Additional music courtesy the Free Music Archive - MIT Symphony Orchestra
Additional video clips courtesy the Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory and the Natural World Film Archive
Interviewee - Troy McMullin (Canadian Museum of Nature)
Also Featured - Andrew Simon (University of Victoria)

[@glenkoko3649]

They look like corals and just like corals, several species lives in symbiosis with each other, they are totally underappreciated and its admirable how they can vary so much in size and looks!

[@PortsladeBySea]

Beautiful 💚

[@budianugerah713]

We are in Indonesia use this as the best organic fertilizer bicause has high of nitrogen and phosphate, and name it as JAKABA. If you lucky enough, it can grow in your liquid organic fertilizer bucket.

[@annajo9536]

In Warsaw (Poland) there are plenty lichens :)

[@mackenziesue5]

What kind of microscope do you use in the field? Recommendations?

[@susanegbert2155]

Love the lichens!

[@Cuezaltzin]

I didn't know they were sensitive to pollution. Great video.

[@matthewschultz5199]

Which one did Shulgin make LSD from?