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Common Orange Lichen

Xanthoria parietina

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Description:

This is a yellow-orange foliose or leafy lichen, with cuplike orange apotecies; here forming crust-looking leafy masses on branches of forest trees.

Habitat:

Found on trees in a forest edges, in a beautiful Bagasse forest (deciduous, predominantly oak, forest) on France-Switzerland border, in a valley of lake Geneva, just in between Jura and Alps mountains ranges.

Reference Links:

Xanthoria parietina - Wikipedia

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