[Leica] Moldy Orange - Microscopy

[Marty Deveney]

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
>
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