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The Lichen Gallery

Cladonia

Cladonia sp.

On a decaying tree stump in a Scot's Pine forest, Abernethy Forest, Moray.
Umbilicaria

Umbilicaria polyphylla

Somewhat dessicated patches of Umbilicaria polyphylla on a stone on a wall at Drumelzier, Scottish Borders.
Cladonia

Cladonia portentosa

Note how the branch tips stick out in all directions. Monduie area of Abernethy Forest, Nethy Bridge, Moray.
Ophioparma

Ophioparma ventosa

A close look at this grey lichen with its contrasting crimson apothecia. On a stone making up a dry stane dyke at Drumelzier, Scottish Borders.
Cladonia

Cladonia squamosa

Emerging from amongst Polytrichum commune on a rotting tree stump in Little Drum Wood by Loch Venachar, Stirlingshire.
Graphis

Graphis ?scripta

On a fragment of Birch tree bark on the woodland floor at Little Drum Wood by Loch Venachar, Stirlingshire.
Caloplaca

Caloplaca sp.

Forming a neat disc-shaped colony on an igneous rock on the shore east of North Berwick, East Lothian.
Cladonia

Cladonia sp.

Growing on an area of gravel at the edge of Toxside Moss, Midlothian.
Baeomyces

Baeomyces rufus

On the surface of a rock at the base of low cliffs in Machar Glen, near Killearn, Stirlingshire.
Ramalina

Ramalina siliquosa

On igneous rocks at the top of the shore, east of South Queensferry, Edinburgh.
Peltigera

Peltigera praetextata

The repeated scalloped-shaped parts of the thallus say "fractal geometry" to me. Growing on a large boulder in Yair Forest, near Selkirk, Scottish Borders.
Lobaria

Lobaria virens

Growing on the bark of a standing tree in Nant Glen, a wonderful fragment of old Oak and Birch woodland in Argyll.
Diploicia

Diploicia canescens

The soredia are concentrated along zones where the lichen thallus margins abut. Growing on a sea stack at Pettico Wick, St Abb's Head, Scottish Borders.
Sphaerophorus

Sphaerophorus globosus

On exposed rock in moorland east of Arnisdale and above Loch Hourn in the Scottish Highlands.
Peltigera

Peltigera sp.

On a steep rock face in Birch woodland near Kilmahog, Stirlingshire.
Cladonia

Cladonia gracilis

Growing amongst moss on a boulder on the steep slopes below Meall Tarsuinn, Sma' Glen, Perthshire.
Cladonia

Cladonia arbuscula

Growing amongst heather (Calluna vulgaris) in a Birch woodland near Whiteadder Reservoir in the Scottish Borders.
Usnea

Usnea sp.

The fruticose lichen is an Usnea growing on Birch near Whiteadder Reservoir in the Scottish Borders.