sixpenceee: “While it looks harmless the Gympie Gympie tree produces a toxin that is extremely painful. Some described the pain as the worst you can imagine. It’s like being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted at the same time. A man even shot...
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sixpenceee: “While it looks harmless the Gympie Gympie tree produces a toxin that is extremely painful. Some described the pain as the worst you can imagine. It’s like being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted at the same time. A man even shot...
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sixpenceee: “While it looks harmless the Gympie Gympie tree produces a toxin that is extremely painful. Some described the pain as the worst you can imagine. It’s like being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted at the same time. A man even shot...
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sixpenceee: “While it looks harmless the Gympie Gympie tree produces a toxin that is extremely painful. Some described the pain as the worst you can imagine. It’s like being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted at the same time. A man even shot...
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While it looks harmless the Gympie Gympie tree produces a toxin that is extremely painful. Some described the pain as the worst you can imagine. It’s like being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted at the same time. A man even shot himself after using a tree form the leaf as toilet paper. It is native to Australia and Indonesia.

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archiemcphee: “Oh noes, you dropped that pot and now it’s broken. Whatever will you do with it now? Don’t throw those broken pots away. You can used them to create awesome little fairy gardens using little plants such as succulents and sedums,...
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archiemcphee: “Oh noes, you dropped that pot and now it’s broken. Whatever will you do with it now? Don’t throw those broken pots away. You can used them to create awesome little fairy gardens using little plants such as succulents and sedums,...
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archiemcphee: “Oh noes, you dropped that pot and now it’s broken. Whatever will you do with it now? Don’t throw those broken pots away. You can used them to create awesome little fairy gardens using little plants such as succulents and sedums,...
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archiemcphee: “Oh noes, you dropped that pot and now it’s broken. Whatever will you do with it now? Don’t throw those broken pots away. You can used them to create awesome little fairy gardens using little plants such as succulents and sedums,...
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Oh noes, you dropped that pot and now it’s broken. Whatever will you do with it now? Don’t throw those broken pots away. You can used them to create awesome little fairy gardens using little plants such as succulents and sedums, decorative stones, and maybe a little gnome or two and a house that’s just their size. Voila, fairy garden! Bored Panda assembled a collection of enchanting DIY fairy gardens. These are just a few of our favorites. Click here to view them all.

Photos via hm-decor.com, infojardin.com, Lynette, and naturework.com respectively.

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plaguebringer1347: “itscolossal: “The Rose of Jericho [VIDEO] is a species of desert moss that has the amazing ability to ‘resurrect’ itself after bouts of extreme dehydration lasting months or even years. After just a few hours of exposure to...
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plaguebringer1347: “itscolossal: “The Rose of Jericho [VIDEO] is a species of desert moss that has the amazing ability to ‘resurrect’ itself after bouts of extreme dehydration lasting months or even years. After just a few hours of exposure to...
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plaguebringer1347: “itscolossal: “The Rose of Jericho [VIDEO] is a species of desert moss that has the amazing ability to ‘resurrect’ itself after bouts of extreme dehydration lasting months or even years. After just a few hours of exposure to...
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plaguebringer1347: “itscolossal: “The Rose of Jericho [VIDEO] is a species of desert moss that has the amazing ability to ‘resurrect’ itself after bouts of extreme dehydration lasting months or even years. After just a few hours of exposure to...
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The Rose of Jericho [VIDEO] is a species of desert moss that has the amazing ability to ‘resurrect’ itself after bouts of extreme dehydration lasting months or even years. After just a few hours of exposure to moisture the plants burst to life, uncurling from a tight ball of dry leaves to a green flower-like shape. Videographer Sean Steininger shot this timelapse of several plants as he exposed them to water.

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libutron: “ Coral Lichen - Cladia retipora Also referred to as Snow Lichen, Cladia retipora is a fruticose (shrubby) lichen that grows on the ground and is native to Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia. It sometimes grows in pulvinate clumps...
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libutron: “ Coral Lichen - Cladia retipora Also referred to as Snow Lichen, Cladia retipora is a fruticose (shrubby) lichen that grows on the ground and is native to Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia. It sometimes grows in pulvinate clumps...
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libutron: “ Coral Lichen - Cladia retipora Also referred to as Snow Lichen, Cladia retipora is a fruticose (shrubby) lichen that grows on the ground and is native to Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia. It sometimes grows in pulvinate clumps...
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libutron: “ Coral Lichen - Cladia retipora Also referred to as Snow Lichen, Cladia retipora is a fruticose (shrubby) lichen that grows on the ground and is native to Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia. It sometimes grows in pulvinate clumps...
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Coral Lichen - Cladia retipora

Also referred to as Snow Lichen, Cladia retipora is a fruticose (shrubby) lichen that grows on the ground and is native to Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia. It sometimes grows in pulvinate clumps (like cushion), often with moss, forming large mats resembling a layer of snow. 

The branches have delicate open-work structure. The three dimensional network of holes are called fenestrations, hence the common name of Coral Lichen. This lichen is usually white to pale grey and sometimes there is a yellowing at tips. The tiny brownish-red tips on the branches are the fungal component’s fruiting bodies called apothecia. These produce the spores.

In Australia this lichen can be found in Queensland, New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory, Victoria, and Tasmania.

The Coral Lichen was the first Australian lichen to be described in a scientific publication, the second volume of Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen (Labillardie, 1806). Labillardie classified it as an alga, and named it Baeomyces reteporus; it was later classified as a lichen.

Besides its beautiful structure, and the attractive landscapes that this lichen creates in the fields where it grows, Cladia retipora has pharmacological properties (its extracts show antimicrobial, cytotoxic and antiviral activity), and is also one of the species being used to monitor fluoride pollution around an aluminum smelter in New Zealand.

[Ascomycota - Lecanoromycetes - Lecanorales - Cladoniaceae - Cladia - C. retipora]

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Photo credits: [Top: ©Kevin Wells | Locality: Tasmania, 2013] - [Middle-top: ©Kok van Herk | Locality: Australia] - [Middle-bottom: ©Vanessa Ryan (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0) | Locality: Sleepy Bay Walk, Freycinet National Park, Tasmania, 2014] - [Bottom: ©Danya Rose | Locality: Blackbutt Plateau, New South Wales, Australia, 2007]