A photo of a grayish lichen with numerous, slightly convex apothecia encrusting some moss.
The moss shingle lichen - Protopannaria pezizoides. Grows in amongst mosses on damp, shady rocks and trees.
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a close up photo of a brown, translucent jelly lichen with many red apothecia sprouting from its wavy lobes.
a close up photo of a dry, grey, finely wrinkled jelly lichen with many red cup-shaped apothecia.
Taking another trip to apothecium town, this time in the company of Leptogium cochleatum - a lovely jelly lichen of mild climes and sheltered shores.
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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
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close-up photo of a honecomb pattern of ridges left behind by a slime mould after it has shed its spores.
Microscope image of the orange fuzz from the previous photo; a scale at the bottom indicates the elaters are about 5µm in diameter and the spores roughly 10µm.
A slime mould doing its best honecomb impression. Trichia scabra, maybe?
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What a thrill...
It's the frilly-fruited jelly lichen, Leptogium burgessii :3
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