20 Photos Tagged "Myron"

Free lunch from a dead body

This white mushroom was found on a decaying log in a forest park. The cap is mostly flat with arched margins. The gills are close. There may or…

It grows on the backlogs

This sessile shelf fungus was found stuck to a fallen log in a forest park. The cap is black and tapers in a zonate pattern towards the margin…

Almost the Mario mushroom

This mushroom was found on growing from the soil off the trail of a forest park. It has a large yellow convex cap covered with warts. There is…

Small tall yellow umbrella-like mushroom

This tiny mushroom sprouted from the soil off a forest trail. The conical cap is yellow in the center and striate at the white margins. The cap margin…

Roast turkey with jam?

This mushroom grew on soil in a forest. The sunken cap has a red colour in the middle and the margin is eroded. The beige margin is tomentose….

Rhizopus stole-nifer all the space

This fungus grew from a swab of rotten squash. It covered the plate in 2 days, and brownish/black sporangiophores lined the lid soon after. Aside from the dotted…

In a “Stachy” situation

This fungus was growing from a swab taken from a metal fence. It is the same dark brown throughout, growing outward with branch-like mycelia and has a very…

Cladosporum-ish kiwi puke

This fungus grew from a kiwi peel and grew for a week before being surrounded by other fungi. It grew its initial colonies in 2 days then expanded…

Looks like an archi-Penicillium-lago

This fungus was found from a leaf sample and colonized rapidly. In just 2 days, pigmented colonies were found on the leaf. Each colony was small, and combined…

Mold from a leaf I think

This fungus grew from a distance away from a withered leaf. It may have come from the leaf, since the leaf moved around a bit when I sampled…

……….(These are spores)………………

The right side of each plate holds a dusty grapefruit peel while the left side was lightly speckled with sink mold. The plate on the right contains PDA…

This agar is bland!

The left plate has CMA and the right plate has PDA. I sampled water from a pond at a local park and the first thing that caught my…

Where’s the fungi?

The left side of each plate contains a swab from a wooden fence which is compared to a swab of a metal fence on the right sides. The…

Different time zones?

There is a section of kiwi skin on the left of each plate, with an apple stem on the right sides. The left plate contains CMA and the…

Leaf vs fig… a clear winner

On the left of each plate is a section of a leaf, and the right has a piece of fig. The right petri dish contains PDA, and the…

I could not leaf it alone

I found a leaf from a large tree that seems to be decomposing from the tip. Since the rest of the leaf is green, it should have fallen…

Apple bottom jeans….

This is a fresh apple. Or is it? There are no blemishes on the peel, but the stem has a slight fuzz. It could just be a normal…

Pond

This is a pond at a local park where you can often see ducks swimming around. The good part is, the water looks clean. The bad part is,…

I NEEEEED ITTTTT

I neglected a grapefruit for who knows how long, and I found it all dried up and dusty. There were some black spots forming and wisps of what…

What the fig

I found a decaying fig still attached to a fig tree. It was obviously eaten by some insects but also had something white covering most of the damaged…