Tuesday 3 January 2017

Symbiosis

Cladonia rangiformis


Lichens are not always that easy to identify, sometimes nearly impossible. Cladonia rangiformis is one of the easy ones, forming characteristic mats on dry limestone soils and on close inspection, speckled with groups of green algal cells on a pale fungal background, "like the pattern on a giraffe's neck":

Cladonia rangiformis


Nikon D7200
100.0 mm f/2.8
f8 1/250 ISO 100