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A SPLOT on the Web: Fungi Lab.
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Found this tree in a park and decided to isolate its leaves (fresh and fallen sample). I thought it would be interesting to compare 2 leaves, where 1…
I found these limes sitting in the back of my fridge and I noticed one was kind of bruised up! I wanted to know if there were fungi…
I found this plant in a lobby indoors and thought it be interesting to sample its soil. The plant itself doesn’t seem to be very healthy, so the…
1) Sample taken from an English Muffin 2) Did not have excess to moldy bread. However, we want to test if Old Mill have quality controls on their…
I found these tomatoes in my fridge and I noticed there was one that was slightly more punctured than the other. One tomato was a bright red in…