BY2012 Microbiology Gallery of Filamentous Fungi
BY2012 Microbiology Gallery of Filamentous Fungi
How does one identify moulds?
Many species of filamentous fungi growing on an agar plate
Aspergillus
Aspergillus
Lactophenol Cotton Blue stain – Nomarski differential interference contrast microscopy
Aspergillus
Aspergillus flavus, which produces aflatoxins, causing ear rot of corn
Aspergillus rot of peaches
Aspergillus flavus, which produces aflatoxins, growing on a peach
Aspergillus flavus on peanuts
Aspergillus flavus on Brazil nuts
Aspergillus spp. growing on wood beams in a derelict house
Aspergillus fumigatus (left) and Aspergillus flavus (right) on
Czapek Dox agar
Aspergillus fumigatus showing typical conidial heads with the vesicle, phialides and conidia in chains
Vesicle
Conidia
Phialides
Conidiophore
Aspergillus with typical sporangium showing the conidiophore, vesicle,
phialides and conidia in chains
Conidiospores
Phialides
Vesicle
Conidiophore
Aspergillus with typical sporangium showing the conidiophore, vesicle,
phialides and conidia in chains
Lactophenol cotton blue stain SEMDiagram
Aspergillus with typical sporangium showing the conidiophore, vesicle,
phialides and conidia in chains
SEM Lactophenol cotton blue stain
Aspergillus with typical sporangium showing the conidiophore, vesicle,
phialides and conidia in chains
Crystal violet stain Phase contrast microscopy
Aspergillus fumigatus showing the vesicle, phialides and disrupted conidial chains
Vesicle
Conidia
Phialides
Conidiophore
Penicillium
Nomarski differential interference contrast microscopy
Penicillium
Penicillium spp. growing on skin of an orange with a dense felt of conidiophores
Penicillium italicum (blue) and Penicillium digitatum (olive green) on Lemon
Two Penicillium spp. growing on skin of an lemon with dense mats of conidiophores
Penicillium expansum causing post harvest rot of stored apples, the rotted
areas being soft, watery and light brown
Penicillium spp growing on bread rolls
Penicillium spp growing on bread
Penicillium spp growing on furniture legs
Penicillium spp growing in houses
On brickwork On a beam
Penicillium spp growing in houses
Penicillium on a ceiling; Stachybotrys is the other greenish-black fungus
Penicillium roquefortii – Roquefort cheese
Penicillium roquefortii – Blue Stilton cheese
Penicillium roqueforti – Cashel Blue cheese
Penicillium glaucum – Gorgonzola cheese
Penicillium chrysogenum– Penicillin production
Lactophenol cotton blue stain
Penicillium spp growing agar
Penicillium chrysogenum
Penicillium spp.
Penicillium notatum
Penicillium italicum
Penicillium sporangia showing conidiophores, metulae, phialides
and conidia
Conidiophore
Metulae
Phialides
Conidiospores
Diagram Lactophenol cotton blue stain
Penicillium sporangia showing conidiophores, metulae, phialides
and conidia
Lactophenol Cotton Blue Stain SEM
Penicillium spp. sporangia
Phase contrast microscopy SEM
Mucor
Lactophenol Cotton Blue Stain
Mucor
Mucor growing on stuffed bacon and cheese rolls in refrigerator
Mucor rot of peaches
Mucor rot of pears
Mucor rot of strawberries
Mucor on Czapek Dox agar
Fungal hyphae forming mycelium over plate
Mycelium of hyphae with sporangiophores
Mucor producing sporangiophores
Mucor, a genus of pin head moulds
Pin head mature sporangia Mature sporangia full of sporangiospores
Microscopic morphology of Mucor spp. showing sporangiophore and sporangium
packed with sporangiospores
SporangiophoreSporangium with sporangiospores
Columella
Microscopic morphology of Mucor spp. showing sporangium releasing
sporangiospores
Sporangiophore
Burst Sporangium
Sporangiospores
Columella
Microscopic morphology of Mucor spp. showing sporangium following
release of sporangiospores
Sporangiophore
Sporangiospores
Columella
Micrographs of Mucor spp. sporangia releasing of sporangiospores
SEM SEM