tags: fruiting bodies, fungi, nature, image of the day
Is this the sporocarp of a basidiomycete or an ascomycete?
The photographer writes;
I photographed these at the Katy Prairie Conservancy Field Office, about 40 miles west of Houston, where the air is clean enough to permit luxuriant growth of lichens. The photo was taken in late afternoon in October 2007.
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Beautiful.
It's pictures like these which convince me I couldn't possibly survive in the wild. Every time I see something bright red or bright orange, I think: mm-mmm, yummy.
Looks like a species of the genus Cladonia to me.
Ascomycetes
From Texas on a tree? It looks like an orange bush lichen, a species of Teloschistes, also an ascomycete.