Tuesday 10th: The first day in the field, El Volcan

After much trouble (Lufthansa on strike) we finally arrived in Caracas, Venezuela. We got a great welcome from Professor Jesús Hernandez and his students from the Jardín Botaníco de Caracas. This is also the place that we are going to stay during our week in Caracas.

Tuesday was our first day in the field. We went to El Volcan, which is, like all of the other localities, a tropical rainforest. Here we hoped to find a lot of Phyllopsora and other closely related genera. And happily we did. This locality was full of old tree trunks, closed but not very dark, a typical Phyllopsora habitat. Phyllopsora, Physcidia, Eschatagonia triptophyllina was some of the species we were excited to find, specially Einar.

                       Making our way into the forest

                        Anne Karin and Einar looking at a Phyllopsora

                        We found a lot of Phyllopsora furfuracea

                        On the top of El Volcan we had a great view over Caracas