Gold-eye lichen (Teloschistes chrysophthalmus)

Gold-eye lichen (Teloschistes chrysophthalmus)

zoom in of gold-eye lichen (Teloschistes chrysophthalmus)

Gold-eye lichen (Teloschistes chrysophthalmus) is a fruticose lichen with branching lobes. Their sexual structures, apothecia, are bright-orange with spiny projections (cilia) situated around the rim. Photo by docent Perry McCarty.
#lichen #Teloschistes #chrysophthalmus #goldeyelichen #apothecia

#Teloschistes

… #Teloschistes sieberianus in the third pic? Is it? What’s the difference to Chrysopthalmus I wonder is it the thicker blue green trunk?

These four pics come from my #crabapple tree. A host many #lichen in my garden. #Teloschistes chrysophthalmus #Ramalina celastri #tephromela atra. And more, feel free to play the name game: we are in NZ barely urban environment sea level by coast. It’s quite wet here