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Niko (Martin) :heart_ace:
@martinligabue@tsukihi.me
Steven Lawson Photography
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This week I began a 10-week course in #lichen identification and, following the maxim that faint heart never won fair lady, I have begun by trying to identify one of the most notoriously difficult lichens, a Cladonia.
This on a Scots pine and has all the characteristics of Cladonia polydactyla. I have some chemical tests and a scaled image to complete but these are a good start (and check out the tiny springtail which was barely visible to the naked eye).
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Close up image showing the bright red apothecia and coarse, granular soredia on the podetia of a Cladonia lichen Close-up image showing the squamules and some podetia of a Cladonia lichen with tiny drops of water clinging to the squamules A tiny globular springtail clambers of the squamules of a Cladonia lichen Close up image showing the bright red apothecia and coarse, granular soredia on the podetia of a Cladonia lichen