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Reindeer Lichen


Reindeer Lichen

This nice white clump is one of my favorite lichens, so wonderfully shaped. A taste of this and you are reminder of the gamey taste of caribou or reindeer, both eat this from the forest floor.



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Amazing !

25 Oct, 2009

 

I didn't know you could eat a raindeer. Have you tasted one ?

25 Oct, 2009

 

I'd heard of that Hywel, don't like the idea much though :-/

25 Oct, 2009

 

I don't either :o((

25 Oct, 2009

 

Very unusual, never seen anything like it.

25 Oct, 2009

 

How pretty - so delicate looking. I suppose the lichen provide a lot of the food over winter once they are uncovered by hooves pawing through the snow. Have never eaten reindeer or caribou, but my father was a hunter and we ate moose, deer, bear, and rabbit, as well as duck and partridge. The bear was the gamiest, ugh, I am not really I fan of wild meat, but as a child, we ate what was served. I realise that wild game helped suppliment our food supply when we lived in the bush, but these days I live down south & I prefer to do my hunting with a camera, more challenging that way, and the meat supply at the local grocers is within my budget. : D

25 Oct, 2009

 

think its a nice looking plant

25 Oct, 2009

 

amazing structure for such a small plant..
and leave Rudolff alone...;-))

25 Oct, 2009

 

Thanks for the comments. I appreciate them. :-) Superb showcase for these without any snow....still!

Reindeer has a very long tradition in the boreal as a cattle crop, from Russia around to Norway. They have been herded and eaten from native culture to now. We have reindeer sausage anywhere you go and pens just like cattle still in some places. Cows do not do so well in the cold. Its the mildest flavor, less like the game flavor. Caribou on the other hand, is very gamey. I'm not a hunter, but I've tasted them all. I am not a fan of the wild flavor much either GZ.

We have one field of cows right now where people pull off the road take photos! COming from cow country I can't believe it, but I am urged as well, they are so rare here.

25 Oct, 2009

 

Amazing Greenthumb - cows being rare there !!!
In this county we have large numbers of cows and cattle and i quite understand when you say you can't believe it !

25 Oct, 2009

raj
Raj
 

looking nice

28 Oct, 2009

 

Thank you Thilak. I love this particular lichen, so shiny a silver.

29 Oct, 2009



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