More Paxton Lichens

I did a short walk to the edge of Redlands on Saturday to photograph a few more of Paxton's lichens - these on the twigs and fallen branches of the Oaks, Hawthorn, Field Maple etc  and the very sandy dry soils. The most interesting find was the first photo a lichenocolus fungus species (Zygzygomyces physciacearum) - the brown blobs!- which grows specifically on Physcia adscendens, (Lichens themselves are a symbiosis between fungi and lichens where the fungus partner becomes lichenised.) The various Cladonia lichens I photographed are definetly the most attractive genus