A small snow cave partially covers ed blister lichen (Physcia stellaris) growing on a limb in our dawn redwood tree. It’s also called a star rosette lichen. It’s a foliose lichen — a leafy looking lichen (say that three times fast). They reproduce by spores, which is the black in each disc.
Posted by New Hampshire Garden Solutions on January 27, 2016 at 5:33 pm
Nice shot of the lichen!
Posted by naturesnippets on January 27, 2016 at 6:26 pm
Thanks. It was a fun one to take.
Posted by bayphotosbydonna on January 29, 2016 at 4:06 pm
Fascinating! It looks like the little discs are opened and each trying to catch a drop of water from the ice. 🙂
Posted by naturesnippets on January 29, 2016 at 4:42 pm
They were easy to find because they were face high