20 Photos Tagged "Christopher P."
Where: In a stand of conifer trees among the fallen needles. Characteristics • Cap Shape: Pulvinate (cushion) • Cap Margin: Entire (even) • Cap Surface: Smooth • Partial…
Where: I found this in a small stand of conifer trees to the side of a greenway trail. It was out in the open but protected overhead by…
Where: I found this in a hollowed out cavity under a tree. It seems as though the tree is still alive and grew over something that later eroded…
Where: Found growing on the end of a tree trunk that had fallen across the path, but had been cut up to clear the way for hikers. Maybe…
Where: Along a forested trail around the perimeters of Burnaby’s EA facility. Located along the grassy margin of a gravel path under ~50-80% tree cover, and fairly fine,…
This is also a sample swabbed from the disintegrating wooden fence beam where I found some orange globules growing. Funnily enough, none of the orange globs proliferated into…
This sample was taken from a swab of the rubber gasket lining the inside of my washing machine. The mold blew up and grew super quickly, spreading over…
This mold came from a diseased spotted leaf of an unknown plant from my grandparent’s garden. The mold was the only fungus that grew from this cutting of…
These two white puffs started growing on the side where I had taken a swab sample from an old disintegrating wooden fence beam. They started off growing as…
This is a sample of a white tarnished splotch from a kabocha squash that had seen some moisture. It grew to this size of a footprint fairly quickly…
1. I took three different leaf samples from the plants at my grandparent’s garden. The top center sample is the only plant which I knew the name of…
1. This is the water sample isolated from a stagnant puddle in a dog park. 2. The CMA plate seems to be favouring more bacterial growth while the…
1. The sample on the left side of the plate is a swab from the rubber liner of my washing machine. The sample on the right side of…
1. The left side of the plate is a sample of some orange blobs that I had found on an old wooden fence post. The right side of…
1. This was taken from some kabocha squash that had started to form large blemished spots on it. There was one sample taken from a black spot and…
I cut off two pieces of Swiss Gruyere cheese (32% M.F. and 36% moisture) from the center and from the rind to see if I could isolate any…
I walked around a local park and came across this empty dog enclosure, where I saw a large stagnant puddle of water. I wanted to sample this water…
I took of sample from the backsplash of my family’s kitchen sink. We use this sink many many times a day and inevitably get water onto the tiles,…
The bin in our backyard releases a lot of liquid from the compost that we put inside of it, which drips down the acrylic sheet into the soil…
This little lamb’s ear (Stachys byzantina (lanata)) shrub in my front garden is showing some browning on its leaves, even though the care & maintenance information on the…