814 Month: November 2020 (page 11 of 28)
This sample was taken from my bathroom ceiling. The growth is dense, dark, and is growing in one big clump. It’s dark green/grey/black in colour with white a…
This growth is from a sample of mold taken from a wooden hand fan. It had darker green/brown/black spots on it. The growth has spread very fast, and…
This colony grew from a sample of dried lavender that’s been living in my bathroom for over a year. This is from the CMA plate. The colony is…
This colony grew from where I cut a chive. This is growing on a CMA plate. On the top, it is greyish green, but on the bottom it…
This colony of mould grew from the petiole of a sickly lemon balm leaf. This is grown on PDA media. The colony grows radially and has a blueish…
This colony grew from a tea-stained paper coaster that I cut up and plated. The colony is large and grows radially. In the photo, you can see that…
I isolated this colony from sampling the air of my fridge. (leaving the plate opened inside for an hour) The colony is a brownish green colour on both…
For these two plates, I decided to plate a sample of garlic and arugula from my fridge. The arugula grew significantly more in PDA in contrast to in…
These two plates contain a sample of ground coffee beans, which had been sitting in the coffee machine, the last couple of days. The left plate contains the…
For these plates, the left sample is cooked rice and the right sample is from a rotting pumpkin. The rice does not appear to show any fungi growth…
I left these plates open for 1 hour in my house. The top plate is the PDA, which shows a very large growth of mycelium. The CMA however…
1. I took three different leaf samples from the plants at my grandparent’s garden. The top center sample is the only plant which I knew the name of…
For each plate, the left sample is swabbing from the shower curtain and the right sample is from under a toothbrush holder. The sample from the shower curtain…
1. This is the water sample isolated from a stagnant puddle in a dog park. 2. The CMA plate seems to be favouring more bacterial growth while the…
This was a sample of the soil from my houseplant. The PDA is on top in this photo and has more colonies with larger masses of mycelium than…
This was from my halloween pumpkin. On top is the PDA, it is difficult to see in this photo, but there is more growth on the PDA plate….
On the left side of each plate is tree bark from a nearby park, and on the right side is from a piece of a bamboo skewer used…
1. The sample on the left side of the plate is a swab from the rubber liner of my washing machine. The sample on the right side of…
This was from the dust in my vacuum cleaner. The PDA on top has a larger mass of mycelium, making me believe it is more conducive to fungal…
1. The left side of the plate is a sample of some orange blobs that I had found on an old wooden fence post. The right side of…
This was from an apple that was starting to rot. PDA on the left, shows more growth than the CMA as well as different species of Fungi, therefor…
This is sampled from my living room air, left opened for an hour. Both showed relatively little growth compared to my other samples, but it seems the sample…
This is sampled from the soil of my tomato plant sitting on the balcony. The upper photo shows the top of the plate and the lower photo shows…
1. This was taken from some kabocha squash that had started to form large blemished spots on it. There was one sample taken from a black spot and…
The right side of each plate holds a dusty grapefruit peel while the left side was lightly speckled with sink mold. The plate on the right contains PDA…
-Samples taken from western red cedar and oak fern leaves. -Very beautiful green growth from the cedar sample with a more saturated color on the CMA plate. The…
The left plate has CMA and the right plate has PDA. I sampled water from a pond at a local park and the first thing that caught my…
-samples taken from a moldy Jalapeño and ginger -The ginger on the PDA is growing a green mold (possibly penicillium chrysogenum) which is absent in the CMA plate….
The left side of each plate contains a swab from a wooden fence which is compared to a swab of a metal fence on the right sides. The…
-Samples from a sword fern and a maidenhair fern -Fungal growth looks very different between the two plates. Overall the PDA plate has more growth and is almost…