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Found on a spruce twig in mainly spruce-doug fir forest. I was lucky enough to find plenty of windfall on the ground so grabbed a couple pieces for my collection. The bright yellow pigmentation is from vulpinic acid which makes this one of the few poisonous lichens in my area.

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