814 Month: November 2020 (page 21 of 28)

Water in a bucket.

1、Accumulated water stored in toilet buckets. 2、This stagnant water has been sitting here for a long time and I’d like to know how much fungus is in it….

Rotting cabbage

1、Cabbage found in the house. 2、This cabbage has been sitting for a long time and the surface is starting to rot badly. 3、I’m guessing there’s a lot of…

rotten pomegranate

1)、I found this pomegranate in my fridge. 2)、This pomegranate has been sitting for a long time and the surface is starting to rot. 3)、I’m guessing there’s abundant fungus…

Soil in flower pots

1) Soil taken from flower pots. 2) Soil are what fungi grows on. 3) Moderate amount of fungi because there are some white spots in the soil that…

Discoloured Leaf

I found a discolored leaf in a pot at home. I decided to choose this leaf because this leaf has the brown spots compared to other leafs from…

Balcony Air on a Cold Day

I left my Dishes on my balcony mid-day for around 40 minutes and then sealed them. I live next to a small green area, and there’s a tiny…

Years-old Bamboo (true birthdate unknown)

This bamboo has been living in this water for as long as I remember, it’s at least 6 years old, and I received it from someone who said…

Long-Lived Jade Plant Dying because of 2020

My very old jade plant has recently been shedding all of it’s leaves in a very short time (I suspect fungus gnats, so that’s why there is white…

Long Lived Colony of Sea Monkeys (Babies)

I took a water sample of my very old sea monkey colony (around 2 or 3 years old) and did NOT add any of my sea monkeys to…

The Pear of 2020

I found a very sad pear at the back of my produce drawer and noticed some mold on it already, so I isolated from that area. This pear…

Moss on log

1) I sourced some moss from a semi-rotten fallen log. 2) I chose this because moss is often damp, so fungi may like to grow amongst it. The…

Rose petal

1) This is a rose plant from the Rose Garden on Burnaby Mountain. I sampled one the petals. 2) The plant was very healthy looking as there were…

Fallen log wood chips

1) This is a fallen log on Burnaby Mountain. It look moderately rotten and I sampled a wood chip from it. 2) The whole log was patched with…

Swab from Fridge Shelf

I took a swab from a shelf in my fridge. I wanted to sample the surface of the shelf to see if any fungi would be present in…

Air outside my sundeck

I took a sample of the air outside my sundeck. I let the plates sit out there for about an hour. I chose to sample the air outside…

Decaying stick

The final place I sampled from was a decaying piece of wood, that I suspect was a piece of driftwood, as it was found nearby the ocean. It…

Rotting Pear

1) The source was a rotting pear that I found in the living room, it had been sitting there for quite a while, I used the top part…

A palm tree in vancouver?

I decided to sample a palm tree I found where I live. I didn’t expect to find a palm tree growing in Vancouver, so I was interested in…

Air sample from my bathroom

The next place I decided to take a fungi sample was in the air in my bathroom. There may/may not be mold in there, so I wanted to…

soil sample from a sad looking tree

This is a picture of a tree from whose base I took a soil sample. I took it on a cold and rainy day, so the soil was…

Rotten Garlic vs Fresh Garlic

1) The sources were a fresh clove of garlic and a shriveled up clove of moldy garlic, the fresh clove was from a different garlic than the moldy…

Moldy old fig

1) This is a fig from my fruit basket that we never got a chance to eat. 2) Most the tissue was sprouting a fuzzy mold already but…

Maple Leaf nearby my house

This is a leaf I found right outside my building where there are a lot of maple leaf trees around. It was found sitting on a ledge right…

3 day old bread

This is the remains of the bread we were eating over the past 3 days. I sampled the white part, not the crust. I chose this because I…

Homemade week old bread

This is the end piece of my moms homemade bread. I chose it as it doesn’t have preservatives like store bread, so I was hoping for more mould….

Air Sample From My Backyard

1) The source was the air sample in my backyard, I just left the plate outside for an hour and took it back inside 2) I was curious…

Water Sample from Accumulated Rain Water

1) The source is the murky rain water that accumulated in the box the pot was kept in 2) I wanted to know how much fungal growth could…

Soil from my garden

The soil is from my garden, just in the front yard of my house. The garden is not too long, I have other things like tomato, mint leaves,…

Soil Sample From Backyard

1) The source is a soil sample from my backyard, the specific patch is the area without the leaves 2) I was curious to see what types of…

Water Sample from Langley City Park

I decided to isolate a sample from a small stream I found at Langley City Park. I decided to isolate from here because I was curious to see…