Photo of a willow trunk with good coverage of green moss and black Ricasolia virens cyanomorphs with a scattering of bright green lobes.

close up of some black, bushy Ricasolia virens thalli with a few bright green lobes budding from them.

Found a big, beautiful patch of Ricasolia virens cyanomorph on a willow near Auchalick Bay. #lichen #ricasolia #cyaonomorph #photosymbiodeme #naturephotography #argyll #scotland #uk

A close-up photo of a wavy green lobe of lichen with several orange, cup-shaped apothecia sprouting from it.

A close-up photo of two pycnidia, each capped with a droplet of an opaque, white exudate.

A few photos of Ricasolia virens - one of my favourite lichens.
When well hydrated it is rampantly vogon-green, with a fishy odour, and exuding tiny droplets of a milky white fluid from its pimple-shaped pycnidia.
Also, <3 apothecia <3

#lichen #ricasolia #trypophobia_tw #argyll #scotland #uk