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Soil Sample From a Houseplant Side by Side

Unfortunately there’s a lot of condensation in this photo, but it is plate soil from a house plant. The top is CMA and the bottom is PDA. The…

Unhealthy and Healthy Leaf Samples

This is a healthy and unhealthy (i.e. browning) leaf sample side by side. The top plate is PDA and the bottom is CMA. On the CMA plate, the…

Water From a Ditch Side by Side

This is a plated water sample from a ditch. The top is PDA and the bottom is CMA. From what I can see there are way more species…

Air Sample From my Balcony Side by Side.

This is the air sample from my balcony after being out for 60 minutes. The top is PDA and the bottom is CMA. There seem to be more…

Swab From my Dog Plate Comparison

This is a swab from my dog’s toe and ear, but the toe section has overgrown to the ear section. The top is CMA and the bottom is…

Dust vs. Walnut

The two samples on these plates are sourced from the dust of a window sill and the walnuts bought from the bulk section of a grocery store. Both…

Air Sample next to Leaky Pipe

The sample collected on these media is the air sample in the kitchen where there is a leaky (moldy) pipe in the vicinity. There is a wider diversity…

The Battle of the Fig Leaves

The samples plated on these media are the decaying leaves from the fig tree in our backyard. There is a significant difference in growth between the two media,…

Rye Bread Mold vs. Persimmon Dark Spot

The two samples plated on each medium are the mold from rye bread and the dark spots of a persimmon. The mold from the rye bread has overtaken…

Soil from a Money Tree

On both of these plates, I plated soil from my money tree. In the PDA plate, there is a large amount of yellow growth. In the CMA plate,…

Healthy Purple leaf vs Dying Pansy leaf

These plates contained two samples each 1) a healthy purple plant leaf tissue sample 2) a dying pansy leaf tissue sample. The top plate was CMA media and…

Dead Log vs Dead Petals

On the left side of the plates, I plated pieces of a dead log. On the right sides of the plates, I plated petal pieces from a dead…

Berry Vs. Berry

On the left side, there is a piece of leaf from my strawberry plant. On the right side, there is a piece of leaf from some wild blackberry…

Moss sample vs Leaf sample

There were two samples plated on each plate first is a small moss tissue sample, and the second sample is a leaf tissue sample from my cat’s favourite…

Rose & Tomato Leaves

On the left side, there is a piece of leaf from my rosebush. On the right side, there is a piece of leaf from my tomato plant. This…

Cat’s favourite plant

The sample that was plated on both dishes was a soil sample from my cat’s favourite plant. The top plate is CMA and it had a decent amount…

Apple Vs. Fruit Bowl

For the sample on the left of both pictures I took a slice of a browning apple and plated it. For the right of both plates I took…

Spider Plant & Cheese

This is one of my favourite plates so far! This has a sample from some really moldy cheese on the left side, and a piece of leaf from…

Murky Puddle Water

The sample that was plated on both Petri dishes was a diluted water sample from a puddle I found while out on a walk. The top photo was…

Soil Competition

This plate has some soil from my garden. The PDA plate is growing much better, as both plates are basically covered with mycelium but the mycelium on the…

5 Year old Cactus Soil

This is what grew from my cactus soil sample. There was quite a large difference in growth the one on the top of the photo was grown on…

Burns Bog Water Sample

From Burns Bog I collected a sample of water from a stagnant puddle and plated it. The PDA plate is on the left and CMA on the right….

Compost Vs. Compost

These plates both have samples from my compost bin on them, along with a piece of maple leaf (that is probably not contributing much to the fungi). The…

Green Vs. Yellow Leaf

On the left side of both plates (left plate CMA and right plate PDA) is a sample taken from a yellow leaf I picked up from the ground…

Growth from Cheese and Pumpkin Seeds

On these plates, we have growth from a sample of moldy vegan cheese shreds on the left, and growth from a sample of moldy pumpkin seeds on the…

Growth from Moldy Vegan Cheese and Pumpkin Puree

On these plates I have a sample from a moldy vegan cream cheese on the left, and a sample from some pumpkin puree that had some white growth…

Different Breads Have Different Molds?

On each of these plates, I plated a mold from different bread sources. On the left, we have mold found on a neglected pack of 12-grain bagels. On…

Air sample from SFU forest.

1) Air Sample taken from a forest. There are a HUGE diversity of colonies in both plates. 1a) PDA and CMA – dandelion-like colonies 1b) PDA – white…

Grape Bush with brown leaves + Dark leaves

1) Green and dark leaf of a grape bush was the source of plating. The white colonies on both plates are not isolated, they seems like a mush….

Sample taken from a opened bag of English Muffin

1) Sample taken from a opened English Muffin (crust and center), with milky-like, melted butter texture appearing on the bread in PDA, and a yellow-ish snot on the…