Cladonia Cup Lichen Branch

A Cladonia cup lichen branch reaches toward the camera with several frilly podetia and tiny fruiting tips. Pale, powdery gray-green stalks end in rust-red apothecia and are lit by soft, diffuse light against a dark, blurred background. A single tubular cup at lower right shows a granular surface, and the red tips look like pinheads at the branch ends.