If you have ever gone away on holiday and forgot that you left some cheese in the cheese dish, then ....
..... this will be a familiar sight when you return home. This slab of Cheddar has become .........
...... a battleground for fungal colonies ............
....... that jostle for supremacy when the colonies collide, and in doing so create a rather attractive, furry abstract design.
Once the mould has smothered the cheese surface it's time to reproduce ....
..... via stalked sporangia ......
.... that resemble little white pom-poms...
.... each of which releases .......
... vast numbers of these minute conidiospores, each just a few thousands of a millimetre in diameter.
ah, my 'fridge as a teenager.
ReplyDeleteDelightfully fuzzy shots!