After a painfully long wait, I finally managed to acquire an additional
Physciella chloantha chunk yesterday! It has been soaked in acetone for disinfection purposes. To further decrease my chances of growing mold, I will be hydrating it less often (one 12-hr period every 3 or 4 days).
Here are some other synanthropic lichen specimens located in "my" yard; they are currently waiting for the lichenologist's ID. Interestingly, the black palm tree dots are largely restricted to areas of injured bark carved into a pattern by some dumb vandal long ago; furthermore, they do not change color when wet (the gray palm dots and probably also persimmon dots turn green like
chloantha in the rain).
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| gray dots from persimmon |
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| black palm dots |
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| gray palm dots |
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