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Lichen on a rain-soaked redbud branch from leftover rain.
Several photos from this morning. Sorry for so many. Another chance of severe thunderstorms off and on the next few days so grabbed a few while I could :-)
Saved the best for last (I think). I'm going to move on to posting something else for a while but not stop shooting lichen. It's so beautiful.
Photographed along lower Umtanum Creek.
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A very common lichen , can be found on living and dead wood. Brocton Cannock Chase Staffordshire UK 16th January 2015
I'm delighted my first image to be chosen for Explore Nov 3, 2014 #195 Crustose and foliose lichens growing on a Crab Apple tree in my garden. My 1st L photo for the Weekly Alphabet Group. The colours are not enhanced, the image has just had a minimal crop.
I took out my tripod, something I've never done. I'm certainly not accustomed to setting up shots. I'm so much more a shoot-from-the-hip (figuratively not literally) person. Obviously I need to get out there either with different light or adjust my settings, but I struggled to get used to the tripod. Isn't it amazing what we can find if we just look closely? This tree just has a little bit of green and yellow on it from a distance. . .
More photos, all clickable, in the comments. Including my faithful, beloved companion.
[SOOC, f/7.1, ISO 500, shutter speed 1/125]
Or should it be Liking for Lichen, anyway growing happily after rain on crab apple trees in the garden.
Flavoparmelia rutidota is a species many people will have seen. It is very common on living trees or dead wood in many parts of the southern half of Australia and has been described as "probably the commonest lichen found on dead wood in Australia". It occurs in or near most cities or major towns of Australia.
In Canberra it is very common on both native and introduced tree species and many Canberrans would have good sized thalli of Flavoparmelia rutidota growing on their well-established fruit trees, with no detriment to the production of fruit. It has been found growing on rock, but rarely. Remember that Xanthoparmelia species are mostly on rock and rarely on wood reference link. www.anbg.gov.au/lichen/xanthoparmelia.html
This patch of ice was covering crustose lichens on a stone wall. It was beautiful to see the multi coloured lichens showing through it, and also the intricate patterns on the surface of the ice, and those made by the pockets of air inside it. The ice was about half an inch thick.
Better in light box.
Lichens, photographed at Chadron State Park, about 9 miles south of Chadron, Nebraska on March 8, 2018.
More lichens from Balmerino cemetery. but this time shot with the macro lens that I forgot last time.
Lichens,in case you didn't know alreadry, are an example of a spcial ofmr of mutualism called symbiosis, insofar as each type comprises both a fungus and an alga living closely together. Both fungis and alga deruve benefit from the relationship.