23 Photos Tagged "Rebecca"

Red and white mushroom

This is a mushroom with a red cap with white warts on it that was found growing in the ground next to the base of a tree. The…

Tiny brown mushroom growing on wood

These are tiny brown mushrooms growing in crack within a wooden pole. The caps are conic with striate margins and rugose surface. There is no partial veil, and…

Cluster of light brown mushrooms

These are a cluster of light brown mushrooms found growing on a log off the side of a hiking trail. The cap is convex but also kind of…

White gilled mushroom

This is a white gilled mushroom that I also found off the side of the sidewalk growing in the grass/dirt. This one has a small mushroom next to…

Cream coloured mushroom

This is a cream/beige coloured mushroom found off the side of the sidewalk near my house. There were other mushrooms in the same area but there didn’t seem…

Rust coloured fungus with black specks from a pinecone

This fungus was collected from a pinecone from a coniferous tree and is growing in CMA. The top and bottom of the colony looks the same and it…

Tall light yellow fungus from birdbath water

This fungus was isolated from birdbath water and is growing in PDA. Compared to the other fungi growing on the plate, this one stood out because the mycelia…

Pink colony from a cactus sample

This fungus was isolated from some healthy cactus tissue, and is growing in PDA. From the top, the fungus looks like it has a pink base with white…

White fungus from air sample

This is another colony that was collected from an air sample next to my garden, although this one was growing in PDA. The colony is homogenously white on…

Brownish-green fungi from air sample

This fungus was collected from an air sample next to my garden. The fungus is growing in CMA. From the top view, the fungus has rings of various…

Pinecone from coniferous tree vs seed pod from deciduous tree

For these plates, I put a piece of pinecone on the left side of the plates and a piece of a seed pod from a deciduous tree on…

Water sample from my birdbath

In these two media, I plated some water from the birdbath in front of my house. I noticed immediately that there was a lot of bacteria growing on…

Cactus tissue and chrysanthemum petal

In the two medias, I plated some tissue from my cactus (that was inside my house) on the left of the plates and a petal from a variety…

Air sample from my garden

For these plates, I left them open next to my garden for an hour to see how many fungi are present in the air (the plants in the…

Strawberry plant leaves

Two leaf samples from two different strawberry plants (one healthy, one unhealthy) were plated on the petri dishes. The leaf tissue on the left side of the plates…

Pinecone from a coniferous(pine) tree

I sampled a pinecone from this very big pine tree. I chose to sample this pinecone because I was interested to see if there would be any fungi…

Tiny cactus with needles

This is a cactus that I have in my house. It started growing some baby cacti, and I thought that it would be an interesting source to take…

Seed pod from an unidentified deciduous tree

I sampled a seed pod from a deciduous that was turning yellow for the Fall. I chose to sample this seed pod because I never noticed structures like…

Seeds from a healthy dandelion found in a park

I found these dandelions hiding between some leaves in a park I was walking through. I was pretty surprised to see them since it’s Fall, but I thought…

Pretty red leaf from an unidentified deciduous tree

A leaf was taken from a deciduous tree that’s turning red. I chose this source because I thought that the colour of the leaves were a really vibrant…

Bark from a tree stump (species unknown)

I collected the bark from an unknown tree that was cut down. I’m assuming this tree was probably cut down a few months ago, but I noticed that…

Murky water from birdbath

I took a water sample from the birdbath I have in front of my house. The birdbath itself hasn’t been cleaned in a while so there was a…

Red leaf from a neglected strawberry plant

I took a red leaf from my strawberry plant (that I did not really take good care of – the strawberries will probably never turn ripe). This strawberry…