Caption

Close-up of luminous living tips of mosses and lichens (lichen) stretching in the dense greenery in front of a forest floor, hiking along the former inner-German border at the green belt near Mitwitz, Franconian Forest nature park Park

Date

Feb 21, 2026

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Marco Bunk

Reference

BRK26C18_063

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Royalty free

Available size

26.2Mb (2.4Mb) / 13.4in x 7.6in / 4032 x 2268 (300dpi)

Keywords

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