231 Photos Categorized "Week 4 – Mold ID" (page 4 of 8)

Black mold from onion skin

This is a sample from onion skin that has black spots, grown on PDA. The top is has black spots (I suspect are spores) scattered over the plate….

green and fluffy

This is a rain sample on PDA. The top is a brownish green colour that is slightly fuzzy. The bottom is a very dark brown/green/black colour. It seems…

Black Spots from Blackberry

This culture is the result of a mushy blackberry being rubbed onto the media. This fungi initially was very slow to grow, as it was about 4 days…

big white and blobular

This sample was collected from rain drops falling from the sky on PDA. During the first week, this fungi was circular but slowly grew in size. The top…

Penicillium Growth from a Dead Plant?

This fungal growth is the result from a piece of my dead succulent being placed on the media. The growth of this fungi was slower than some of…

Prayer Plant on CMA

This colony was found on a healthy leaf off a diseased prayer plant plated on CMA. The top is powdery and shows clear rings. It is a creamy…

Fusarium Growth from Rotting Tomato?

The source of this fungi is a rotting tomato that was swabbed onto the plate. This fungi is of pink colour and is slightly lighter on the bottom…

Unhealthy Mandarin Flexes it’s Fungi

This colony comes from a molding portion of a mandarin’s skin plated on CMA. The colony is very fluffy looking on the top, like freshly fallen snow or…

Nasty Pear Takes Over

This sample was taken from a rotting pear and a leaf of parsley plated on PDA. The pear sample had a fungi that has taken over the entire…

Yellow Mold

This mold is from a piece of strawberry leaf from my outdoor strawberry plants. It has grown very fast and seems to cover at least half of the…

More Sea Monkey Samples

This sample was taken from a sea monkey tank and is plated on PDA. The top of the fungi is a fuzzy brownish green and grows in a…

Sea Monkey Water Makes a Big Comeback

This sample of sea monkey water has started to show some interesting growth. I took some water from my long lived sea monkey tank and this sample is…

Small Dark Blob

This mold is likely from some very moldy cheese I sampled. It is vaguely circular, and would probably be perfectly circular if it had not grown up against…

Small White Circle

I think this mold is from some incredibly moldy cheese I sampled. It is quite small and perfectly round, and the top appears sort of domed. The top…

Air sample from SFU forest. Pt 2

1) Air source in forest 2) Have similar presence then the other one I posted. It has fluffy white top with black at the bottom. Only difference is…

Sample From Dark Leaf Grape Bush pt 2

1) Retrieved from dark leaf of a grape bush 2) White spots on top with black dots on the bottom 3) Looks much like Rhizopus stolonifer

Sample From Dark Leaf Grape Bush

1) Dark leaf from grape bush 2) Fluffy top with pinkish colors on the side with black dots on the center back 3) Looks most like Fusarium oxysporum

Pretty In Pink

This mold is from a piece of blackberry leaf from a wild blackberry bush near my house. It is pink on top, with some lighter mycelia on the…

Sample from green leaf grape bush.

1) Source form green leaf of grape bush 2) Bottom a burnt orange and top white with some slight hint of orange on the side 3) Looks most…

Air sample from SFU forest.

1) Retrieved from air sample in SFU forest 2) White and fluffy on top but yellow at bottom 3) Looks most like Clonostachys rosea

Rhizopus Gone Wild

This mold is probably from the compost bin that I took a sample of, but it has taken over the entire plate. The mycelia is white, with tiny…

Colourful fungus from leaf

This fungi colony was sourced from a green leaf with brown spots from PDA media. The colony has a nice colorful orange/ red colour with some brown/black and…

Green Mold from Rotten Garlic

This fungi was sourced from a rotten garlic on PDA media. It can be seen that the fungi has spread quite rapidly as it covers the entire plate….

Beautiful Pink Fungus

This beautiful pink fungus was sourced from a red cedar on CMA media. It has a fuzzy texture and spreads out in a somewhat curved shape. It is…

fluffy white fungus from leaf

This fungi was sampled from PDA media of a fallen leaf that had some spots on it. The fungi has grown fairly significantly as it’s fluffy white top…

Shoe Closet Fungus

This fungi was taken from CMA media as an indoor air sample from my shoe closet. The fungi has colonies spread out all over the plate of varying…

Hydrangea Fungus

This was isolated from a hydrangea leaf. The colony is formed of mycelia which filled most of the plate. It is browny beige in colour, with tiny black…

Light brown mold from air sample

This fungus was isolated from the air in my kitchen. The colony is circular in shape and a bit translucent at the edges. The top is flat and…

Banana Fungus

This was isolated from a piece of banana. The colony is circular shaped, with mostly entire margins. The surface is powdery, with a green and white edged top…

Pretty pink mold from a raspberry

This fungus was taken from a moldy raspberry I found in my fridge and grew on a CMA plate. The fungus has a circular colony (barring the gray-green…