Is it poisonous?
We have no record of California Pore Lichen being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Diploschistes scruposus
- Xalocoa ocellata
- Coccotrema maritimum
- Diploschistes actinostomus
- Ochrolechia parella
Classification
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Ascomycota
- Class
- Lecanoromycetes
- Order
- Pertusariales
- Family
- Pertusariaceae
- Genus
- Pertusaria
- Species
- Pertusaria californica
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