Foreign Spore Germination: Fungi Tumblr

I have shared this tumblr link before but I am sharing it again.

http://mycology.tumblr.com/

Today, because I saw this:

Spider being eaten by fungi

And thought, "Look who weaves the best silken threads now?"

I love that tumblr you should definitely go follow it.

Fungal Word Friday: Columella

The columella is a sterile dome shaped structure found at the tip of a sporangiophore, or within a sporangium.

Rhizopus oryzae with collapsed columella

 Photo Cred: The University of Adelaide Mycology Online: Rhizopus oryzae page.  http://www.mycology.adelaide.edu.au/Fungal_Descriptions/Zygomycetes/Rhizopus/R_oryzae.html

Fungal Word Friday: Adiaconidia

An adiaconidia is a large, globose conidium with a thick wall.

 

Adiaconidia of Emmonsia in scleral nodule biopsy.

Photo Cred: Marcia O. Mendes, Mario A.P. Moraes, Ernesto I.M. Renoiner, Marta H.P. Dantas, Tatiania M. Lanzieri, Carlos F. Fonseca, Expedito J.A. Luna, and Douglas L. Hatch Volume 15, Number 4 issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases. Via Center for Disease Control

Fungal Word Friday: Stolon

The stolon is a running hypha that rhizoids and sporangiospores rise from.

Geomyces destructans pseudo-colored photomicrograph w/ stolon in yellow

It is basically the portion of the hyphae running laterally between the business parts of a fungus.



Photo Cred: Vishnu Chaturvedi, Deborah J. Springer, Melissa J. Behr, Rama Ramani, Xiaojiang Li, Marcia K. Peck, Ping Ren, Dianna J. Bopp, Britta Wood, William A. Samsonoff, Calvin M. Butchkoski, Alan C. Hicks, Ward B. Stone, Robert J. Rudd, Sudha Chaturvedi [CC-BY-2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons