[obol] 'funny' common names

[Tim Rodenkirk]

Hi All,

It is really, really difficult to lead a field trip to
look at nonvascular plant species (lichens,
bryophytes, and mushrooms) with beginners because most
of them do NOT have anything but scientific names. 
So, you have to make up names or look hard to find
"common" names. Fortunately there actually are a few
common names, although Kyle failed to mention one my
favorites- a crustose species that is green and grows
in patches on old logs with pink apothecia spread
throughout it (the part of the lichen that produces
spores)- it is called "Fairy Barf".  You gotta love
that name, especially if you've seen it in the woods!

Happy botanizing,
Tim R
Coos Bay
--- Kyle Spinks <kspinks at thprd.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> In the spirit of the conversation about the
> double-entendre common bird names, here's a few
> common names of lichens of the Northwest.  I swear
> that a bunch of drunk lichenologists sat around the
> campfire one evening and made these up!
> 
> Sea tar
> Bark barnacle
> Seaside kidney
> Punctured rock-tripe
> Peppered moon
> Lettuce lung
> Frog pelt
> Freckle pelt
> Pimpled kidney
> Forking bone
> Laundered rag
> Antlered perfume
> Devil's matchstick
> Waterworm
> Coastal reindeer
> Common Christmas-tree
> Blood spattered beard
> Common witch's hair
> 
> and my favorite:
> Questionable rock-frog
> 
> (These are all from the Plants of the Pacific
> Northwest Coast, Pojar and MacKinnon)
> 
> Kyle Spinks
> 
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