"Martin Weiss" <mweiss at nyscience.org> wrote in message
news:p06002000bb9f887da54c@[192.168.1.83]...
> Does anyone have a reference to molds based upon their color?
> I'd like to create an exhibit-sort of a mold painting-using molds of
> different colors. Hopefully the substrates won't be to difficult.
> Ones I know of are aspergillus is brown-black, penicillium is blue
> green.
That's a nice idea, but I'd shy away from doing that because you're going to
be producing an horrendous number of spores. That represents a real hazard,
they can cause breathing problems and in some cases they can set of ghastly
allergic reactions. They'll also out grow your artwork in no time at all!
Aspergillus is a genus that comes in all manner of colours; from the dingy
black of the dangerous A. niger to the more sickly, fluffy green of A.
oryzae, through the yellows and oranges of the other species. And I wouldn't
like any of them sporulating anywhere near me :)
