Natural History Photographs





From þingvellir one can go north on a road that after a few miles turns into a gravel road. This road leads into wide landscapes of what is known as the 'desert'. This refers not to the absence of precipitation - there is plenty of that! However, the vegetation is as sparse as one might expect from a proper desert... Yet this is fertile hunting grounds for some nice lichens: the Rock tripes!



Habitat of the Rock tripes, Umbilicaria
Umbilicaria hyperborea
English:Blistered rock tripe
Deutsch:Hochnordische Nabelflechte
Svenska:nordlig navellav
Umbilicaria torrefacta & U. cf. havaasii
English:Punctured rock tripe
Deutsch:Runzelige Nabelflechte
Svenska:siktlav
Umbilicaria cylindrica
English:Fringed rock tripe
Deutsch:Fransen-Nabelflechte
Svenska:strållav
Umbilicaria proboscidea
English:Netted rock tripe
Deutsch:Rüssel-Nabelflechte
Svenska:snabellav