[Leica] Moldy Orange - Microscopy

[Aram Langhans]

Thanks, Marty.  It is coming back to me now.

Aram

On 1/16/2023 8:46 PM, Marty Deveney wrote:
> 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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>> & Unemployed photographer
>>
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Aram Langhans
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& Unemployed photographer
  
“The Human Genome Project has proved Darwin more right than Darwin himself would ever have dared dream.”   James D. Watson