File:Penicillium.jpg

Bread mold. Taxonomy: Kingdom: Fungi. Phylum: Ascomycota. Class: Euascomycetes. Order: Eurotiales. Family: Trichomaceae. Genus: Penicillium

These artificially colored images were originally put in the public domain in a very early AOL image library, circa 1995, by R. B., a teacher and electron micrographer, along with text files describing the images and providing an interesting introduction to the SEM.

Original caption:

bread mold (1200x) Penicillium is the stuff the antibiotic is made from and grows not only on bread but on citrus fruits as well. The moldy spots are generally composed of a number of different fungal species.

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