This is the 15th year of continuous daily publication for 365Caws. All things considered, it's likely it will be the last year as it is becoming increasingly difficult for me to find interesting material. However, I hope that I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world with my natural history posts, or encouraged a novice weaver or needleworker. If so, I've done what I set out to do.
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Cladonia Ecmocyna
Day 189: Plants vs. Zombies, and I'm not sure who won. While I was exploring the back reaches of Longmire Campground a few days ago, I stumbled across a number of small but well-developed colonies of this unusual Cladonia (C. ecmocyna). Its slender, pointed podetia sometimes rise as much as three or four inches above the carpet of moss, giving the impression of pale worms emerging from the forest floor. A subspecies often forms narrow cups at its tips, and may exhibit brown apothecia on the rims.
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