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  • From: bobf <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] James. why
  • Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 11:34:47 -0800 (PST)

Sage, so what does that mean as far as doing anything with the lichens?

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--- On Wed, 2/4/09, Sage Austin | Eureka! Design <eureka AT hctc.net> wrote:

> From: Sage Austin | Eureka! Design <eureka AT hctc.net>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] James. why
> To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 11:56 AM
> "Lichens growing on trees (and throughout the
> ecosystem), each posessing
> their own unique chemistries, also leach substantial
> quantities of
> secondary metabolites, which each combine in unique ways
> with those of
> their host plants. Lichens are a symbiosis of two
> organisms, a fungal
> mycelia and an alga, that come together to form one plant.
> In a sense
> they are a kind of mycelia that can live outside the soil;
> the alga
> protects the internal mycelial core (from such things as
> drying out)
> much as the soil does. The exterior alga and the interior
> mycelial core
> possess their own unique biochemistries while, in
> combination, they
> produce synergistic compounds unique to their combination
> as a lichen.
> In the case of Usnea lichens the exterior covering is
> highly
> antibacterial while the inner mycelial core, composed of
> complex
> polysaccharides, is strongly immune potentiating. Lichens
> release these
> compounds into their tree hosts to support their hosts'
> health and also
> leach the into the system during rainfall. The tree lichens
> growing in a
> hectare (2.5 acres) of oak woods can weigh 1,500 pounds and
> their
> chemistries significantly alter throughfall water
> chemsitry"
>
> Johannes Knops, et al., "The influence of piphytic
> lichens on the
> nutrient cycling of an oak wood," in Ecological
> Monographs (May 1996)
> www.nothernlights.com, excerpted from Stephen Harrod
> Buhner's "Lost
> Language of Plants".
>
> --Sage
>
> Clansgian AT wmconnect.com wrote:
> >
> >>> What kind of lichen? Are they cutting out
> light/air movement or????
> >>>
> >
> > Enough lichens on the bark causes the bark to
> deteriorate and introduces
> > bacterial diseases and harmful fungus. I lost a whole
> grove of cherry trees due
> > to allowing the lichens to grow too thickly on them.
> Pity too, really good
> > Montmorency trees that produced heavily.
> >
> > Now I make the bark a hostile environent for lichens
> and fungus by treating
> > the bark with a weak copper solution.
> >
> > James
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