Coccotrema maritimum is a crustose lichen commonly known as volcano lichen, due to the volcano-like appearance of the fruit bodies. It was first described and named by renowned Canadian lichenologist Irwin Brodo from a population on Haida Gwaii (for a brief time known as the Queen Charlotte Islands) in 1973.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Coccotrema maritimum 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
Classification
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Ascomycota
- Class
- Lecanoromycetes
- Order
- Pertusariales
- Family
- Coccotremataceae
- Genus
- Coccotrema
- Species
- Coccotrema maritimum
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