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Bright yellow. At first I thought it was paint.
Spotted in a park on the trunk of a large gum tree (Eucalyptus sp.)
Spotted on Jun 28, 2012
Submitted on Jun 28, 2012
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I've added another 2 photos. These were the only ones out of about 10 that were anything near focused! I'm quite sure it's not paint now. It was only on the shady southern side of the trunk.
Ok, thank you very much Argy & Lars. I'm going to head back to this tree & take a few macros. Maybe it really was paint I was looking at. Thank you for your help & info!
Here's a similar spotting of mine, which is definetely a crust lichen (species unknown, though):
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/894...
From that distance it looks like Dog Vomit Slime Mold, but growing on bark of an alive tree is kinda unusual...
Interesting. I was clicking away at something like this the other day and finally realised it really was paint. Delete X 4. Have you had a go at macro shots -sometimes the structures can give hope for an ID.