Fluffy Pestilence
If you only judge the spread by the eruption of fluff you’ll underestimate the extent of the disease. A carpet of spores coat the surface, and fungal threads wind their way through the flesh of the plant, forcing their way through.
Fortunately for a guy with a macro lens, there is a glasshouse at work that is crawling with pestilence due to the sloppy way it’s being looked after. If you look closely you can see the stomates in the leaf and the fungal threads twining over the green leaf surface.
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jcmontgomery
Only you could put “fluffy” and “pestilence” together…and make it work! LOL
Nice shot.
Damian replied
LOL, thanks Jo! :)
warmsugarcube
and i thought it would be a happy story about a plague of bunnies but no..
Damian replied
LOL, that’d be a cool sight. Makes me think of Wallace & Grommitt :)
Leoni Venter
Wow, very cool! That’s what always gets me about fungi … those that grow in the fridge, especially … people go, oh, I’ll just scrape the fluffy bits off … not knowing that their unwanted guest had already grown all through the substrate and is now happily in the reproductive phase :D
Damian replied
Thanks Lee! LOL, yep, you’d need impossibly good eyes to spot just how far things have spread!!!
Karen Cougan
I’m sure I have this up my nose atm….......dam flu…............
I am so glad you are doing this type of work to share
well done mate
xkc
Damian replied
Thanks Karen :)
Yikes, I pity your nose,LOL! Hope you get over the flu soon, there’s some bloody tough ones down here atm.
LostGod
they look like sponges, pretty cool mate.
Damian replied
Thanks Dave, and I agree, definately like sponges. I’d never really paid attention to this one so much before, so it’s good to have a sloppy worker around sometimes to let them get out of control (as long as it’s not in my stuff), LOL!
EdgeOfReality
They look like rice crispies gone wrong. Your work is very interesting Damien.
Damian replied
Haha, thank you! Glad you like it :)
PJ Ryan
how amazing does this look!?
love the little story too .. well done xx
Damian replied
Thanks Nicole, glad you like it!
Firedrake
Fluffy Pestilence…that is the BEST title EVER.
Damian replied
Haha, I’m gonna frame your comment and hang it on my wall :)
Dayonda
Wow, stunning work- stunning lens, too. Sometimes I think peope wonder at us because all they see of us is our backs and elbows, bent over our subjects. . .
I have a “toy” computer microscope (macroscope?) that can do an interesting job on some things. LOL, the stranglest thing I’ve looked at yet is cat hair—while it’s still on the cat. I’ll have to bring it into the Group, if it isn’t already. The opals are mine, using this ‘scope.
Damian replied
Thanks Dayonda :)
I had to go looking, and I found your opals :)
Dayonda
Ah, it’s late… Hard Science Group
Stephen Thomas
Great and very interesting macro photo!
Damian replied
Thanks Stephen, I’m glad you like it!
linda858100
EXCELLENT WORK YOU DO