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...on a rock.
Aren’t these cool? I’m not even sure how I spotted them, as they were pretty small. It’s some kind of little black lichen growing on a rock; I’m not anywhere near my field guides at the moment, so I haven’t a clue what it is. What I thought was interesting was the way it’s growing in concentric circles.
And it showed up on a truly gorgeous rock, just covered in a lichen-y rainbow of colours.
Looks like sea urchins have been grazing here....
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Great photos :)
Thank you so much! I’m just glad I noticed it.
From what I could find it looks to me to be a Verrucaria Maura
I couldn’t indanything else that was close that grow on rocks.
Thanks for looking it up—that’s certainly what it looked like, Cher. Little tar blops. But this was in the Kensington lands, well away from the water—I googled it, and the references I found said that V. maura is one that grows on rocks by the shore. Maybe a relative? Or an explorer? Certainly a mystery!
Very cool! Nature’s artwork.
Yeah, sometimes I wonder why humans try to do art at all, given the competition!