See your Gabriola lungwort right here!
If you’ve been reading this blog for a while, you might remember that I found a weird thing in the woods a couple of months ago. To me it looked like a half-eaten maple leaf covered in white bubbly dried goop. I poked it with a stick (as one does!) then took a few photos and blogged about it here. A while later I found out what the stuff is: pulmonaria, or lungwort. Fascinating.
Today I found some pulmonaria that you pass every time you go past the White Hart Skol pub. So now you can go have a look at this famous lichen, if you wish.
Immediately across North Road from the pub, there’s a newspaper box and a parking space that’s inaccessible when the ferry line-up gets in the way. Go there. Go a little further (step carefully!) to and look at the tree branches to the right. See? That leafy stuff growing on the tree trunk and on some branches is pulmonaria. You might find a pulmonaria leaf on the ground by your feet, too.
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