
We had an early frost and fog today....ideal for photographing mosses. This is the recent (40 years or so) interloper from the southern hemisphere, Campylopus introflexus:

It has the most wonderful spore capsules (~2.5 mm tall):


Baeomyces rufus is a very common lichen on exposed soil, rock and old wood. The green cluster is another specimen of Campylopus, shown above:

The fruit bodies are (of course) purely fungal ( each mini-mushroom is about 2mm. tall):

2 comments:
Fantastic close-up shots - especially that spore capsule. First snowdrop out here today, but none of that blue sky you've got :-(
Gill
Love the close-up photos, Stuart.
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