814 Month: November 2020 (page 3 of 28)

Slender boi

I found this gilled mushroom growing in a park on wet soil, covered with wood chips and other organic matter. The cap has a bell shape (campanulate), crenate…

White & pink-red mushroom

This mushroom was found at Burn’s Bog in very wet, woody soil. It is a gilled mushroom. It has a decompressed cap with an uneven cap surface and…

Cute little orange mushroom

This was found at Burn’s Bog on the wooden plank bridge trail that goes throughout the bog. It appeared to be attached to the plank of wood alongside…

Cheese mold

1. Isolated from cheese 2. Appears to be a white, solid, mass colony (or many colonies very closely clustered). Also looks to be flat (not dome shaped). 3….

Strange seedpod mold

-Isolated from a tree seed pod that was beginning to decay. – It might be two molds because the seed pod is surrounded by a pure white mold…

Soil mold

1. Isolated from a soil sample 2. Dull, flat, green, whitish colonies that are clustered together but also spread apart. 3. I’m not sure. This could be trichoderma…

Shower mold

1. Taken from the floor of a standing shower 2. Single, circular colony, pink 3. This is probably not a mold, but the bacterium Serratia marcescens. There is…

Cherry tomato mold 2

1. Isolated from another cherry tomato 2. Massive green colored colonies clustered together 3. Looks like trichoderma

Cherry tomato mold

1. Isolated from a cherry tomato 2. Many, far-spread, small, white colonies forming small clusters 3.

Sclerotia ginger

-Mold growing from a sample of ginger. -Transparent mycelium with medium sized, black sclerotia growing in a circle around the ginger sample. -I believe this mold is in…

Mold in the air

-Also isolated from the air in my apartment. -Grey green on top and white with green edges on the bottom. The mold is growing in five places on…

Orange peel mold

-Grown on a plate with an orange peel and spinach. Although it is closer to the orange peel sample, the spinach really took off and might have spread…

Airy mold

-Mold from an air sample taken from my bedroom/kitchen -The mold is a fuzzy white and pale yellow on the bottom. It was very slow to grow and…

Air fungal spores (CMA vs PDA)

1. Left plate is CMA, right plate is PDA Left half of each plate is sample 2, right half of each plate is sample 1 2. Nothing macroscopic…

Rhizopus stole-nifer all the space

This fungus grew from a swab of rotten squash. It covered the plate in 2 days, and brownish/black sporangiophores lined the lid soon after. Aside from the dotted…

Awesome fluff

I sourced this fungi from plant tissue from a hosta plant outside in my backyard. THe fungi is fluffy white on top slightly yellow tinged and pure yellow…

Lemon fungi & Cheese fungi (+ CMA vs PDA)

1. Left plate is CMA, right plate is PDA Left side of each plate: lemon fungal source Right side of each plate: cheese fungal source Top half of…

In a “Stachy” situation

This fungus was growing from a swab taken from a metal fence. It is the same dark brown throughout, growing outward with branch-like mycelia and has a very…

Cladosporum-ish kiwi puke

This fungus grew from a kiwi peel and grew for a week before being surrounded by other fungi. It grew its initial colonies in 2 days then expanded…

Bumpy air

This was from an air sample on my kitchen window sill behind the sink, left open for an hour. The fungi a bumpy center. It’s a dark green…

Looks like an archi-Penicillium-lago

This fungus was found from a leaf sample and colonized rapidly. In just 2 days, pigmented colonies were found on the leaf. Each colony was small, and combined…

Cool bumpy fungi from air sample

This was from an air sample on my kitchen window sill behind the sink, left open for an hour. The fungi has cool rings growing from the center….

Mold from a leaf I think

This fungus grew from a distance away from a withered leaf. It may have come from the leaf, since the leaf moved around a bit when I sampled…

Pumpkin mold

I took a tissue sample from a rotting pumpkin for this fungi. The bottom of this fungi is a dark brown with some of the white/yellowish brownish surrounding…

Onion skin wins colonizing race

I took a tissue sample from an outer layer of skin from onion. The fungi has long white stalks/ mycelia with black sclerotia on the ends. This fungi…

Tickled Pink Grass

The material used here is a tissue sample from grass in my front yard. The mold is dark pink on the bottom and white on top. The pink…

bread mold

This is a sample from moldy inorganic bread on PDA plate. This was one of the fastest growing molds out of all my samples. I think this is…

garden dirt

This is a sample from garden dirt on PDA plate. So many different molds have grown on this plate but I am going to identify the one shown…

mold on cucumber

This sample is from a moldy cucumber on the PDA plate. on top (not really clear in the picture) the colour is between brown and green /brownish-green and…

mold from kitchen sink

This is a sample from kitchen sink on the PDA plate. compared to some of my other samples and my sample from the bathroom sink, this mold grew…