Candelariella vitellina

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Candelariella vitellina
[“Common gold speck lichen”]

USES:   Dye (Sweden)

This lichen was used in Sweden to dye woolens yellow (Uphof 1959).

Candelariella vitellina contains calysin, which is a yellow pigment (Brodo et al. 2001).