Peter
I don't know the range of some lichens, but could the
gray foliose one in left hand corner be Parmelia
sulcata?? Yellow ones Candelaria??? If the photo was
from North America that would be my guess.

Rich Hyerczyk
--- peterchen60563 <peter@...> wrote:

> I took this photo while on vacation in France in
> December.
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http://www.biophile.org/pix/2005_12_30/Besancon,France-Lichen.jpg
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> This was at a restaurant stop along the highway and
> I noticed these very
> colorful lichen growing on some shrubs and I don't
> recall ever seeing
> lichen on shrubs. I ran back to the bus to grab my
> camera and only had
> time to take one photo in a slight drizzle. Can
> somebody identify these?
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