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Map Lichen

Rhizocarpon geographicum

 

Summit of Whiteface Mountain, Adirondacks, New York.

 

Map lichens grow very slowly of rocks near mountain summits where the air is cleaner. They grow just 5/8 of an inch in a century!

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Uploaded on August 14, 2016
Taken on August 5, 2016