20 Photos Tagged "Wayne"

Inside-out Mushroom

This mushroom was found growing in a park near the base of a coniferous tree. This gilled mushroom is infundibuliform with an undulating cap margin and smooth shiny…

Weird Asterisk Mushroom

Found at a nearby park, growing on soil covered in dead leaves. I’m not sure if this mushroom is supposed to look like this, as it was the…

You Smell Cucumber?

Found this mushroom growing next to the sidewalk behind some bushes. It was growing on moist soil covered by dead plant matter from the bushes. This mushroom has…

Algae on My Shelf

This mushroom was found growing on a dead log at a community garden. This polypore mushroom has a conchate cap shape with an eroded cap margin and zonate…

Slender boi

I found this gilled mushroom growing in a park on wet soil, covered with wood chips and other organic matter. The cap has a bell shape (campanulate), crenate…

Fungi from Shower Curtain

The fungi in this sample was sourced by swabbing dark spots on my shower curtain. The mold is a pinkish red colour on the top and the bottom,…

Fungi from Tree Bark

The sample in the picture above was sourced from a tree of unknown identity from a local park. The mold is yellowish white on both the top and…

Mold from Rotting Pumpkin

The fungi from this sample was sourced from the flesh of a rotting pumpkin. The mold has white rings both on the top and bottom. On the first…

Fungi from the air in my living room

This fungi was sampled by leaving the petridish in my living room uncovered for an hour. On top, the fungi is green at the center and white around…

Fungi from acorn

The fungi from the sample above was sourced from a piece of acorn I found on the ground of a local park. It appears to be small dark…

Rotting Pumpkin vs Cooked Rice

For these plates, the left sample is cooked rice and the right sample is from a rotting pumpkin. The rice does not appear to show any fungi growth…

Samples from the Bathroom

For each plate, the left sample is swabbing from the shower curtain and the right sample is from under a toothbrush holder. The sample from the shower curtain…

Tree Bark vs Bamboo Skewer

On the left side of each plate is tree bark from a nearby park, and on the right side is from a piece of a bamboo skewer used…

Clean Air

This is sampled from my living room air, left opened for an hour. Both showed relatively little growth compared to my other samples, but it seems the sample…

Soil from Potted Tomato Plant

This is sampled from the soil of my tomato plant sitting on the balcony. The upper photo shows the top of the plate and the lower photo shows…

Sad Looking Pumpkin Carvings

Tissue sampled from a decaying jack-o-lantern. The insides have fungal growth and the walls of the pumpkin is soft to the touch. I expect to see high fungal…

Pot of Soil

Soil sampled from a pot outside my balcony. The plant itself is showing signs of distress, so I suspect it might be something in the soil that is…

Squishy Moldy Pepper

A green pepper that had little mold spots that I tried to save by keeping it in the freezer, only to see that the mold has spread after…

Yellowing Parsley Leaf

Isolated leaf tissue from a parsley plant that was starting to yellow. The yellowing seems to be causing the leaf to slowly die off. I do not expect…

Sad Tomato vs Happy Tomato

I isolated tissue from a couple of homegrown tomatoes. One was from a tomato showing rot on the bottom, and the other was perfectly healthy. I chose this…