Driftwood Rim Lichen
(Lecanora xylophila)
Ried State Park
Maine
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Driftwood Rim Lichen is an encrusting lichen with a light colored thallus and numerous brown or brick red fruiting bodies, encircled by a thallus-colored rim. Sometimes this lichen will cover large areas of driftwood
that has beached high in the intertidal.
Source: http://www.beachwatchers.wsu.edu/island/beachlog/documents/april08.pdf
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5 comments:
I love the little details that are in focus!
Very interesting. Nice shot you got here!
What a great picture! I love finding different lichens and this one is a beauty! Well spotted, and well photographed, too!
Karen: I so enjoy all the forms that lichen takes.
Natures decorative beads.
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