814 Month: November 2020 (page 13 of 28)

Sample from mango peel

Both of the plates are mango peel. The left is CMA plate, and the right is PDA plate. The growth rate of PDA plate is much faster than…

Bright Green Waxy leaf and Red Healthy Leaf

On the left side there is a sample of a healthy bright green waxy leaf taken from a plant which also had unhealthy cloudy looking leaves. On the…

Water from muddy puddle

These media plates contain a water sample from a muddy puddle outside my house. There is way more growth of colonies on the PDA plate than the CMA…

The underside of a plate w/ a really old lavender bud, and a cutting from a peace lily leaf.

On the left side of each plate is the peace lily leaf and on the right side are a few dried lavender buds that are a year old….

Soil sample from healthy basil

This is a sprinkling of soil from my Thai basil plant which is really healthy. There is a clear difference between the two media both in the rate…

Old tea-stained coaster and a sage stem sutting

I apologize again that I didn’t spin these plates properly. Coaster on the PDA is at the bottom, and coater on the CMA is at the top. sage…

Wood chip and concrete chip plate

1) The sources are a wood chip taken from a rotting log (Burnaby Mountain) and a chip of concrete (m basement). 2) The fungi on the PDA plate…

Parsley from outdoor plant and 2 year old dead tomato plant stem

Firstly, I’m sorry that I took this photo terribly so I’ll begin by saying what is where. The parsley on the PDA plate is on the top, while…

Rose petal and rose bush leaf plate

1) The sources are a rose petal and rose bush leaf taken from the rose garden on Burnaby Mountain. 2) The fungi on the PDA plate has spread…

Moss and leaf litter plate

1) Both sources had a sprig of moss on the left side and a small cutout of leaf litter in the right side. 2) The fungi on the…

Soil sample from the base of a rotten log

1) The media is soil from the base of a rotten log that was mixed with 10mL of water. 2) The PDA plate looked like it had two…

Good basil vs bad basil

On the left side of the plate (or the lower one in the photo) I plated half a leaf from my thai basil plant that’s doing swell (called…

Bread and Orange peel plates

1) On the left side of both plates is a small piece of stale bread, on the right side of both plates is a small piece of orange…

Day old coffee mold

The source I extracted from for these plates was some day old coffee sitting on my desk. On the left is the coffee on PDA media and on…

Fishy Fungi Plated Samples

Here, I plated some water from my fishbowl with only one fishy in it. Although both of the plates look a bit similar in growth, the PDA media…

Soil from my garden

In this image, I have plated soil from my garden on both media types. The PDA media shows more colourful, fun looking fungal than CMA, therefore I think…

Air from SFU

I have plated air from the indoor halls of SFU. After letting it grow for a week, it clearly shows a large piece of fungus on the PDA…

Inside the washing machine and gross water bowl

These plates include swabs from the inside of my washing machine (7a) and a swab from my cats water dish that had run dry (7b). (Don’t worry, they…

Squeezing lime for fungus

I have plated a green healthy lime and a brown bruised up lime on both types of media. After the 2 weeks of growth, it looks like the…

Good Leaf vs Bad Leaf

I have plated a green leaf and a brownish-yellow leaf on both types of media. The brown leaf plated on the PDA media seems to have a lot…

Driftwood sample

Here I plated driftwood onto CMA and PDA plates. They both have radial, uniform growth. I would say both of them have a yellow hue. PDA has more…

Water from dogs dish

The top dish is the CMA plate while the bottom is the PDA plate. This was water from the dogs and cats water dish. There’s more fungus spots…

Air sample from bathroom

These are air samples from my bathroom, after being left for an hour. They both seem to have minimal growth, with tiny spots. I would say that PDA…

Fungi sample from compost bin

Sampled some fungi that were growing in my compost bin. There seem to be 2 different fungi growing on the 2 plates even though they were sampled from…

Palm Leaf v Maple Leaf

A maple leaf and palm tree leaf, from trees in front of my home, were plated. CMA plate -for both leaves- have more uniform growth compared to the…

Green Soil from dead succulent :(

This soil sample was taken from the container of a small succulent that died a while ago and recently showed a green coating on top of the dirt….

Backyard Air

For the above sample I left the plates open in my backyard for 1 hour at about 5pm. The left plate is CMA and the right is PDA….

soil sample plate from a sad looking tree

Here I plated a soil sample that I found from the base of a tree in my neighborhood. The PDA seems to have a lot more growth than…

Green mould from my outdoor fence door

Sampled some green mould on my outdoor fence door. Each half of both plates are the same source and are just replicates. There is significantly more growth on…

House Plant

For both samples above they were taken from a plant I have in my house. The sample on the left side of the plates was from a leaf…