Natural History Photographs


Crete, Greece
Vasiliana
26 April 2017

After having enjoyed the tulips of Omalós, we drove to the west, one of the only two directions to move away from Omalós (the other direction is to the south). We stopped near a gully on a mountain slope. Such gullies are visible from a large distance, because the deciduous Chestnut tree, Castanea sativa, grows only in the gullies, and the color of their tender budding foliage stands out in the landscape. When I looked around in one such gully, I found that the trunks of the Chesnut trees are richly adorned with lichens.



Arisarum vulgare & Cyclamen creticum


Lichen habitats


Lichen communities


Lecanora allophana


Ochrolechia
pallescens
Parmelina
tiliacea
Pectenia
plumbea
Pertusaria
pertusa


Physconia spec.


Fuscopannaria olivacea






cf. Lecanora campestris cf. Porpidia macrocarpa