Sunday, August 31, 2008

Old leaf

I wonder what happened to these leaves? They're so covered with fungi, they're more fungus than a leaves. Notice that there are other leaves around them, all fresh, slick and green.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Covered with leaf LICHENS and what look to be leafy liverworts.

for an introductory guide to leaf lichens go to:
http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/plantguides/guideimages.asp?ID=1

Anonymous said...

Forgot to add that the number of "epiphylls" (as these are called) is related to the age of the leaf, which accumulates them over time.

Steven Winn Alexander said...

> Robin, many thanks for contribution to my blog. I'll be getting back with you on every comment. Can't say how great it is to have someone "in the know" reading my posts. Cheers.