Top 10 Most Common Mushrooms in Callosa de Segura

Common orange lichen was selected in 2006 by the United States Department of Energy as a model for genomic sequencing. Its widespread dispersal and bright yellow-orange color give the lichen its common name. It is primarily found growing on rocks, walls, and tree bark.

The torq (Agaricus bitorquis) is a white-capped agaric that bears a resemblance to, and is closely related to, the commonly-eaten button mushroom (Agaricus bisporus). This hardy, generalist species does well even in urban environments - their white fruiting bodies can be seen poking up through woodchips, mulch, sidewalk cracks, and even asphalt.

Hollyhock rust (Puccinia malvacearum) is a parasitic fungus that produces a rust disease on the foliage of host plants such as hollyhocks and mallows. Hollyhock rust grows on the leaves, creating small brown spots on the undersides, then bright yellow or orange pustules on the tops. A severe infection can impair photosynthesis in the host plant. Its spores spread on the wind.

D. canescens is a crustose lichen with lobed margins a growth type known as "placodioid". It grows in rosettes up to 6 cm (2.4 in) across. The thallus which can range in color from white to very pale gray is typically darker in the center and very white-pruinose on the marginal lobes. These lobes are convex becoming wider at the tips – up to 1 mm (0.04 in) wide. The center of the thallus is generally covered with soralia which are flour-like and pale to slightly yellow in color. The photobiont of D. canescens is a green algae (chlorococcoid). Like many lichens D. canescens disperses primarily by means of symbiotic vegetative propagules; most are covered with extensive mats of soralia. Apothecia are rare but where they occur are black lecideine (meaning that they have no thalline margin) and measure 0.3–1 mm (0.01–0.04 in) in diameter. Each ascus contains eight spores. Each spore is brown with a cell wall (called a septum) that divides it into two cells; it measures 10–15 μm (0.0004–0.0006 in) x 5–8 μm (0.0002–0.0003 in). Observations in Ireland found apothecia only between the months of summer and winter. The production of spores increased over that time period with peak germination occurring in fall.