Microscopic World of Mold

Laziness … a horrible thing, especially during self isolation.

Dad did not clean the french coffee press for a while and guess what happened? MOLD!!!

This one looks like a fine specimen. Look at those colours!

Who do you think did the dirty work?

Some facts about mold:

“A mold is a fungus that grows in the form of multicellular filaments called hyphae” [source:wikipedia]

Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered antibiotic Penicillin on a laboratory glass plate that had been contaminated by a blue-green mold.

Photos

If you look closely at the pictures, you will notice that there are many spores. Some of them closely resemble beautiful flowers.