looking for pictures of mold growth colonys

[Guest guest]

not just a spore. anyone know of a good site?

[Guest guest]

My old basement... Ha ha ha, I just woke up and could not resist that. I will

look through what links I have in awhile and get back to you.

Chris...

Life is a balance of holding on and letting go...

[] looking for pictures of mold growth colonys

not just a spore. anyone know of a good site?

[Guest guest]

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> not just a spore. anyone know of a good site?

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Type the following link into your address bar, and hit your " enter " key.

http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp

This will take you to the CDC photo website, where there is a

" quicksearch " box. Type the word " fungus " into the box. I tried typing

" mold " and " toxic mold " and came up with next to nothing. Typing

" fungus " returns hundreds of petri dish photos of mold. Along with the

petri dishes, there are some pretty disgusting photos of mold on the

human body. All petri dish photos are " thumbnail size " photos. Clicking

on the thumbnail will enlarge the photo and show the name of the mold &

other information on the mold. Make sure that only the " photos " circle is

checked, before clicking the " begin search " button.

[Guest guest]

-thank you, what i' tring to find is trichoderma, couldn't find it

there but getting real hard for me to see. there was a very light,

what may be considered fluoresant green mold at my second home that

may not have been classified on test results, or misclassified as

aspergillus/pinicillium. would know it if i saw a good picture.

trichoderma is often mistaken for asp/pin. classified as emerald

green, so i really need to see a good picture, white areas do not

contain spores, green areas contain massive spores and candida. there

was a layer of white dust under the house and when i pulled some

insulation down from inside the wall there was some very bright light

green mold on it. this house was gutted out and redone inside but not

all of it. so far none of the molds found on testing match up to this

mold color. that color stuck out like a sore thumb, its close to what

a algie green might look like. -- In

, " joseph salowitz " <josephsalowitz@...>

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> > not just a spore. anyone know of a good site?

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> Type the following link into your address bar, and hit your " enter "

key.

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> http://phil.cdc.gov/phil/home.asp

>

> This will take you to the CDC photo website, where there is a

> " quicksearch " box. Type the word " fungus " into the box. I tried

typing

> " mold " and " toxic mold " and came up with next to nothing. Typing

> " fungus " returns hundreds of petri dish photos of mold. Along with

the

> petri dishes, there are some pretty disgusting photos of mold on the

> human body. All petri dish photos are " thumbnail size " photos.

Clicking

> on the thumbnail will enlarge the photo and show the name of the

mold &

> other information on the mold. Make sure that only the " photos "

circle is

> checked, before clicking the " begin search " button.

>

[Guest guest]

I might be wrong, but I would think that in order to identify molds in petri

dishes in any accurate way that you would need a microscope and slides and

stains, etc.

To say that you could identify them from simply looking at the color is at

best inaccurate.. Perhaps some molds (like penicillium) might have a

characteristic look, but I don't in a million years think that you could

rely on that. The color of a mold is effected by growing media, temperature,

age, and i'm sure (I am NOT an expert) a zillion other things. The experts

that I have spoken with over the last year all have said that you need a

microscope and LOTS of knowledge to identify molds.. They are very

complicated and they have many different stages of growth and its much more

complex than what Barb and other people's statements seem to imply.

Mold identification requires some serious study and certainly, the ability

to look at the microscopic structures.. and probably much more..

[Guest guest]

-he he he, pictures, only pictures. don't go to any trouble, seams

the pictures don't do alot of justice for the real thing, but maybe

my vision just is hindering what i can see so colors are not

appearing as they should.-- In , United

States Vet <unitedstatesvet@...> wrote:

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> My old basement... Ha ha ha, I just woke up and could not resist

that. I will look through what links I have in awhile and get back

to you.

> Chris...

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> Life is a balance of holding on and letting go...

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> not just a spore. anyone know of a good site?

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[Guest guest]

There is an exemplary source for professionals at:

McCrone Research Institute

2820 South Michigan Avenue

Chicago IL 60616-3292

http://www.mcri.org/

Be aware that critical decisions need critical information. If it

isn't available for any reason we are left with our best guess. Which

is 90% of the time with mold. So, just keep in mind that fuzzy

information (pun intended!) results in fuzzy decisions.

Carl Grimes

Healthy Habitats LLC

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> I might be wrong, but I would think that in order to identify molds in

> petri dishes in any accurate way that you would need a microscope and

> slides and stains, etc.

>

> To say that you could identify them from simply looking at the color

> is at best inaccurate.. Perhaps some molds (like penicillium) might

> have a characteristic look, but I don't in a million years think that

> you could rely on that. The color of a mold is effected by growing

> media, temperature, age, and i'm sure (I am NOT an expert) a zillion

> other things. The experts that I have spoken with over the last year

> all have said that you need a microscope and LOTS of knowledge to

> identify molds.. They are very complicated and they have many

> different stages of growth and its much more complex than what Barb

> and other people's statements seem to imply.

>

> Mold identification requires some serious study and certainly, the

> ability to look at the microscopic structures.. and probably much

> more..

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[Guest guest]

Did you look at Doctor Fungus pages. I wish I

could find more of such pictures too.

[Guest guest]

Joe, that is a great site for fungal pictures.

It shows though how hard it is to identify. So

many molds look alike I'm sure without a

microscope.

[Guest guest]

Live Simply,

No I have not implied identifying mold from petri

dishes is easy at all. I was just trying because

I just have a few days to say yes or no to

leasing an apartment so have to go on a guess. I

only mentioned one dish and reason I was trying

to determine what some of the possibilities were

as to it's identity was because it was very fast

growing mold and that concerned me and I don't

have time to try to get it identified. No, I

never said it was possible to identify mold from

pictures but it gives some idea and some

possibilities. I think I can tell the difference

between catching yeast and catching mold in a

dish now, so there is simple things you can learn.

[Guest guest]

bbw--I spilled water in my car and some white mold started growing. I wonder if

that could be the fusarium you have referred to. Jane Ann

bbw <barb1283@...> wrote: Live Simply,

No I have not implied identifying mold from petri

dishes is easy at all. I was just trying because

I just have a few days to say yes or no to

leasing an apartment so have to go on a guess. I

only mentioned one dish and reason I was trying

to determine what some of the possibilities were

as to it's identity was because it was very fast

growing mold and that concerned me and I don't

have time to try to get it identified. No, I

never said it was possible to identify mold from

pictures but it gives some idea and some

possibilities. I think I can tell the difference

between catching yeast and catching mold in a

dish now, so there is simple things you can learn.

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[Guest guest]

No, I wouldn't be concerned. There are lots of white molds and as

everyone is pointing out it is almost impossible to know what it

is. An experienced microbiologist said looking at my plates that he

could not tell by just looking at pictures but if he would guess, he

thought probably mushroom fungus/mold. Bastiomyces or something

like that. Someone else said Fusarium is more often pink but I saw

some pictures of all white on Fusarium that look alot like my

plate. I would never think I could id by looking at plate but I was

considering the worse case scenerio since I had to make a decision

on a very desireable temporary rental arrangement for myself. I

really wanted to take it but the thing that gave me pause was that

this extra mold caught in dish was very fast growing and since my

immune system is compromised that can be a problem for me. One mold

can be all different colors depending on what stage of development

it is. Anyway if it's your car and you are concerned, you can get a

swab of it and send it to lab for id. If the water source was just

a spill from a cup I wouldn't worry since that was a one time

incident and now that it is dry there shouldn't be a concern. Even

if it was Fusarium, it is common in outdoor air I think so coming in

contact with your beverage is not an unusual thing. Now if it was

growing in your a/c unit of car, that could be a problem but people

here don't seem to have found car a/c units to be a big problem from

what I can remember of posts.

Microbiologist said mushroom mold is much more likely the source of

white cottony mold growth since it is so usually in high numbers in

the air.

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> bbw--I spilled water in my car and some white mold started

growing. I wonder if that could be the fusarium you have referred

to. Jane Ann

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[Guest guest]

It's not 'not easy' its impossible-

BTW, stachybotrys colonies can be white/gray.

When its 'young'.

On 11/16/06, bbw <barb1283@...> wrote:

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> Live Simply,

> No I have not implied identifying mold from petri

> dishes is easy at all.

>

I was just trying because

> I just have a few days to say yes or no to

> leasing an apartment so have to go on a guess. I

> only mentioned one dish and reason I was trying

> to determine what some of the possibilities were

> as to it's identity was because it was very fast

> growing mold and that concerned me and I don't

> have time to try to get it identified. No, I

> never said it was possible to identify mold from

> pictures but it gives some idea and some

> possibilities. I think I can tell the difference

> between catching yeast and catching mold in a

> dish now, so there is simple things you can learn.

>

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