my wittle baby inoculated mushroom spore swab colonies, all have two fungal friends that I dont want there xD- Recent fungal contam close ups, so you dont have to do it <3 โ- if we compare morphologies of both contam colonies in question to the expected smaller mushroom fungusโ mycelium, its easy to tell they are troublesome fungal molds!
The mold in last two photos gives itself away by its location, its excessive growth speed, and its hyphae being overly filamentous compared to expected mushroom mycelium and esp conpared to inoculated germinations visible near it :) but as i watch the PE spores grow out the hyphae start to look similar to the edge outlierโฆ. Hmmm. I wont toss this plate just isolateโฆ would hate to have a particularly vigorous mushy isolate be wasted xD
first two photos are of umbo plate, with clearly a colorized mold colony, very dusty and powdery. I plan to do microscopic ID later today once I get scotch tape to try and ID it for real! Im thinking its am ascomycete at least!