The whitish-green flecks and a few stems rising looked like a seedling patch, with most just germinating. This garden, though, was a patch of Cladonia, British Soldiers. One stem may be large enough to grow the red cap, but the clump hasn’t reached the reproductive stage. The branch coming off the down log looked like it had been dead for years. The bark is gone, and the Cladonia garden might be relatively young.
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