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Lichens and fungi from Mullaghagarry Wood.

 

Showers.

A south-facing exposed rockface is covered in large patches of this Baeomyces rufus lichen. Individual fruit bodies about 3mm tall.

Cladonias are always worth a photograph. These are the bright red fruit-bodies of Cladonia polydactyla.

    

I took the shots of this Usnea blissfully unaware of the pink objects, which turn out to be a minute parasitic fungus - Biatoropsis usnearum. These are are sub-millimetre in diameter and hard to see with the naked eye.

    

This patch of Hedgehog mushrooms was just at the edge of the path. Hydnum repandum.

A large (and fairly old) specimen of Coltrichia perennis - Tiger Eye.

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