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Cladonia pleurota
Spotting #500!!! Fruticose lichen, with podetia cup shaped, yellow-green colored. Exterior surface and inside of cup densely covered with small, corticate granules, exterior also with small squamules. Margins with minute, bright red pycnidia; apothecia bright red, conspicuous, on irregular and distorted podetia.
Spotted on a granite rock wall.
Camera Model: NIKON D300. Exposure Time: 1/60 sec.; f/32; ISO Speed Rating: 200. Focal Length: 90.0 mm. Flash fired.
Spotted on Aug 13, 2012
Submitted on Sep 4, 2012
16 Comments
Gracias Eulalia
¡Qué color tan bonito! Buen trabajo.
Thanks Satyen
Fantastic spotting! Congratulations on the 500!
Thanks Nuwan
Congratulations!
Thanks lori.tas
Georgous.
Thanks C.Sydes
beautiful lichen beautifully captured
Thanks Emma
Beautiful 500th spotting! Congratulations!
Thanks Cindy
Congratulations on #500! Beautiful lichen.
Thanks Jeannette
Congratulations :)
Nice colours and camera ;-)