Mycotheca Regnum Fungi
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Penicillin mould

Penicillium chrysogenum Thom

Penicillin mould (Penicillium chrysogenum)
Plate · Penicillium chrysogenum Enlarged model, not to scale

Description

A blue-green mould of indoor spaces and old food, with spores arranged in brush-like chains.

Curiosity

A strain found on an Illinois melon in the 1940s drove the mass production of penicillin.

Sources

GBIF · Wikidata

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