Description: This unmistakable, shrubby lichen forms neat sprays of grey-green tufted lobes 2-5cm high, terminating in numerous cream-coloured discs. The stiff, shiny, partly-deflated nature of the erect lobes anchored by a strong holdfast gives the whole plant a domed or conical appearance like an exuberant arrangement of tubular trumpets. Common on well-lit trees, along hedgerows, parks and in gardens, basic-bark preferred.

Key Identification Features:

• Shrubby lichen of tufted lobes each terminating in a cream disc often larger than the diameter of the lobe
• The arrangement can produce a dome of discs.

Original text submitted by Vince J. Giavarini

Distribution Map from NBN: Ramalina fastigiata at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Ramalina fastigiata at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.