I’m Lichen It! Day Two

It’s not moss.

It’s lichen.

Does it have or will it have fruiting bodies?

This section here is like a power coating, but up close and blown up (click on the image) there are shades of green unseen before.

Here there’s some sort of structure that I didn’t see before, especially across that ridge of bark in the middle. It looks like little circles or pox marks.

More of it here, along with some yellow patches.

Lots of yellow here, along with clusters of those circular, pox-mark like areas.

Another bright yellow patch along with some of the green stuff. I wonder if the “pox mark” areas here were brighter green when wet but are now reverting to brown and/or clear as they dry, but leaving that structure visible?

Speculation. But if I get a chance I’ll go take some close ups tomorrow of the non-lichen covered section to see if it’s all over the tree bark or just where the lichen is.

Junior botanists of the world – UNITE!