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Another #Cladonia saga out of the calcareous grasslands of Aston Rowant in Oxfordshire. Find once again courtesy of @judyweb32049878. Warning: unresolved ending ahead. Though I hope the utterly weird beauty of this #Iichen will make up for it.

Let's go:
First off, let's give our attention to the feature that is screaming out to be noticed. The wine-glass shaped stalks ('pixie cup' podetia) of this #lichen are tiered, with the young stalks proliferating from the rims of the older cups. Like crooked turrets on a Tim Burton castle.
In this specimen, these stalks grow huddled together, forming up to 3 tiers in places and evoking a fantastical landscape - somewhere between a haunted forest and an ancient stratified city.
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