Luckily Laurens Sparrius helps out: it's Peltigera hymenina, a rare lichen, mostly to be found on the northern (West-) Friesian islands of the Netherlands, and only sporadically inland. So it's a special find.

After overlooking them for half a century, I started noticing lichens and they amaze me by their timid splendor. Fungus and algae symbiotically creating wild variations of appearance and color, hues and textures, settling unobtrusively on places that seem hard to survive on. I bought a Dutch field guide for lichens. My plan is to take pictures, post them here and work with the guide to collect names and infomation about the finds.

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Peltigera hymenina
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