Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2023/01/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nice! Moulds are cool. It?s an Ascomycete and it is forming ascogonia and antheridia which fuse into asci. There is a diagram of the Ascomycete lifecycle here: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6e/Conidia_Formation.png Marty On Sun, 15 Jan 2023 at 8:52 am, Aram Langhans via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote: > Brought 25 lbs of oranges back with us and for some reason quite a few > got moldy this time. So, out come the microscopes. A few at lower > power with the dissecting scope. > > Here is a close view of the mold - 25x > > Orange Mold - 25x-3066-Edit (leica-users.org) > < > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/sc/Orange+Mold+-+25x-3066-Edit.jpg.html > > > > And a bit closer - 40x > > Orange Mold - 40x-3073-Edit (leica-users.org) > < > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/sc/Orange+Mold+-+40x-3073-Edit.jpg.html > > > > The scrape a bit off and put it under the compound scope at 400x to see > the actual spores and mycelia (sporangium?). Rusty on my mold anatomy. > Just a quick water mount. > > Orange Mold - 400x - Edit- (leica-users.org) > < > http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Aram/misc/sc/Orange+Mold+-+400x+-+Edit-.jpg.html > > > > Holy Moldy..... > > Comments welcome. > > Aram > > -- > Aram Langhans > (Semi) Retired Science Teacher > & Unemployed photographer > > ?The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself > would ever have dared dream.? James D. Watson > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information