Hills under the pines: reindeer lichen
Photo: Helen Arusoo
Translation: Liis
The northern reindeer lichen makes a miniature hillock landscape.
The northern or star-tipped reindeer lichen (Cladina stellaris) is easy to recognise among other lichens, if you look at the shape of its thallus or body: it grows like a little rounded hill. It is as if small domes were growing beneath the pines. Its relatives, the grey or true reindeer lichen, the yellow-green reindeer lichen and the shrubby reindeer lichen grow, seen by our eyes, more as level mats.
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