We no longer attend the British Lichen Society, Chat & Improvement Meetings; we did so for a couple of years if not more but were never going to become expert. Time had run its course and we had arguably outstayed our welcome, so we have left: and if truth be told, it lifted a weight from our minds.
And with it being Spring (of sorts) our attention is now turned to Bees, Bee-Flies, Butterflies, Crane Flies, Hoverflies, Ladybirds, Shieldbugs, Wild Flowers &c. &c.
But we will still be looking for Lichens, such as this Flavoparmelia caperata (lots of it present), seen recently on a tree on Bostall Heath (the Royal Borough of Greenwich) viz. green-coloured lobes, some wrinkled, soredia on lobes, the under-lobes black although light coloured at margins with white rhizines which apparently turn black with age:
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