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Dark Shadow Lichen on North Moat Mountain in New Hampshire

Growing on summit rocks with a Halloween look is (I think) Dark Shadow Lichen (Phaeophyscia sciastra). I like the colors and pattern as this lichen, growing on yellow-orange rock, decays from healthy (leafy dark brown) through lighter brown, bright red-orange, white and eventually cracked/disintegrated.

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