Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Jelly lichen?

From time to time I report on the jelly lichen which pops up in the broken, gravelly part of our back patio. It has been in decline for the past few years, but the other day it, or something very similar, popped up on the twig illustrated left.

It has a matt rather than a silk finish and the habit is not quite the same, but then that might be just down to it growing on a twig, even in this damp weather, rather drier than the bit of patio in question, apt to become a spring or a stream bed when it is wet. Wet enough, in fact, that the three small ponds are presently one. Readers can remind themselves about the ponds at reference 2 - and looking at the snow there, be amazed that it dates from very nearly the same time of year that we are at now.

Reference 1: http://pumpkinstrokemarrow.blogspot.co.uk/search?q=extravagant+plants.

Reference 2: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-frozen-wastes-of-surrey.html.

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