Natural History Photographs


Belceğiz (Isparta)
29 April 2014


Final stop at the end of this day. From the road, the hills looked quite promising, and indeed they yielded some nice finds! I was both surprised and delighted by flowering Ephedra, sole representative in Europe of the Gnetophta, one of the four main groups of the Gymnosperms.





Ephedra spec.


Smyrnium spec.


Placynthium & cf. Caloplaca s.l. spec.


Toninia tristis
A dark lichen hidden is dried moss that looked so dark I thought is was burned - but it wasn't.


Placocarpus schaereri


Lecanora bolcana