After a week or more of fairly heavy rain that left everything well soaked, I had noticed a growth on our backyard tree that is almost certainly lichen.
The rain stopped early last week and it’s been dry for a few days. But the next storms are moving in (it’s raining now and we’re under yet another flash flood watch until Wednesday or so) so I took the opportunity this afternoon to take a look at the dried up lichen.
Several of these more colorful spots are still active.
A number of spots that were covered with the dark green lichen are now hard and white. All around the hard, white area in the center you can see areas of the “pock marks” that I think are structures of the lichen growths.
More flat, hard, white sections, surrounded by green pock marks.
There are also some new sections that have a reddish or pink tint.
Another pink-ish area, with lots of good detail on the “pock mark” areas.
We’ll see what the next round of rains bring out of these growth areas!
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