It's one of those days again and I thought I'd rummage through my lichen photos to bring you more lichen joy!
These are foliose lichens - that means they can be peeled from their substrate (although obviously we would never do that!) and they're kind of leafy. I'm pretty sure of the identification of all of them, but am prepared to be corrected . . . Just look at the different colours!
Becky
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| Anaptychia runcinata - This beautiful bronze-coloured lichen turns green when wet. |
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| On a stone at Ardnave - Physcia adscendens (white) amongst Xanthoria parietina (yellow). This beautiful lichen has 'eyelashes' or cilia visible through a hand lens. The Xanthoria is plentiful round Islay's coasts. |
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| Physconia distorta (I think) with Physcia adscendens - on fence at Gruinart |
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| Melanelixia subaurifera (I think) - same fence at Gruinart |
Your pic of Anaptychia runciata Becky has helped me identify a lichen I found on rocks by the beach in S W Ireland.
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Lis