20 Photos Tagged "Christian Ching"

This is a very odd and scary brown mushroom

This odd mushroom was found growing on a grassy patch that is covered with dead spruce leaves. The patch is covered in shade by the large spruce and…

Brown mushroom in a patch of grass and dead spruce scales

This cool mushroom was found growing on a grassy patch that is covered with dead spruce leaves. The patch is covered in shade by the large spruce and…

Amanita spp.

This cool mushroom was found growing on a grassy patch that is covered with dead spruce leaves. The patch is covered in shade by the large spruce and…

Another Inocybe spp. on grass/dead spruce leaves

This cool mushroom was found growing on a grassy patch that is covered with dead spruce leaves. The patch is covered in shade by the large spruce and…

Inocybe spp. on grass/dead spruce leaves

This cool mushroom was found growing on a grassy patch that is covered with dead spruce leaves. The patch is covered in shade by the large spruce and…

Brown colony from Lavender Bud

This colony grew from a sample of dried lavender that’s been living in my bathroom for over a year. This is from the CMA plate. The colony is…

Greyish green colony from chive

This colony grew from where I cut a chive. This is growing on a CMA plate. On the top, it is greyish green, but on the bottom it…

Cool green colony from Lemon Balm

This colony of mould grew from the petiole of a sickly lemon balm leaf. This is grown on PDA media. The colony grows radially and has a blueish…

Large spotty colony

This colony grew from a tea-stained paper coaster that I cut up and plated. The colony is large and grows radially. In the photo, you can see that…

Fridge Air Colony

I isolated this colony from sampling the air of my fridge. (leaving the plate opened inside for an hour) The colony is a brownish green colour on both…

The underside of a plate w/ a really old lavender bud, and a cutting from a peace lily leaf.

On the left side of each plate is the peace lily leaf and on the right side are a few dried lavender buds that are a year old….

Soil sample from healthy basil

This is a sprinkling of soil from my Thai basil plant which is really healthy. There is a clear difference between the two media both in the rate…

Old tea-stained coaster and a sage stem sutting

I apologize again that I didn’t spin these plates properly. Coaster on the PDA is at the bottom, and coater on the CMA is at the top. sage…

Parsley from outdoor plant and 2 year old dead tomato plant stem

Firstly, I’m sorry that I took this photo terribly so I’ll begin by saying what is where. The parsley on the PDA plate is on the top, while…

Good basil vs bad basil

On the left side of the plate (or the lower one in the photo) I plated half a leaf from my thai basil plant that’s doing swell (called…

Chives with some trouble

One of the many herbs I grow is chives, and this one sits on my windowsill beneath a grow lamp. They fell over a bit like the picture…

My poor basil

I grow a lot of herbs. This is one of them. This one, unlike the rest of their siblings (just other Thai basil that I planted in different…

Fuzzy Peace Lily

This is a dying leaf from my peace lily plant. It’s covered in white fuzz and it’s not doing so well. The rest of the plant seems relatively…

Dried lavender that’s waaay past its expiration date. (But it looks ok?)

This is a bundle of dried lavender buds that I got as a closing night gift from my director. This was a year and a half ago. She…

My…fridge?

I know. There might not be a ton of fungi here, but I asked a question. If the cold environment of the fridge prevents fungi from growing, then…