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plant, botany, moss, lichen, pine needle, miniature landscape, Cladonia, Bryum
Description
A tiny landscape is captured on a rock outcrop in highland Perthshire. Some of the inverted cones, arising from soft green leafy structures of a lichen resembling Cladonia impexa, bear startling red fruiting bodies A quite different lichen forms pale grey crusst on the rock. Old pine needles are scattered around as are some mosses, one of which, probably a species of Bryum. is producing sporing heads on long thin stalks.