what's with the little drops of water?

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visceral_instinct

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I'm growing fungus on soup for an experiment, and the dots of fungus are discharging what I assume are drops of water. Why do they do that?
 
Vis, what kind of fungi ?

Are you sure they aren't gas bubbles ?
 
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Not sure. They are white with grey-green cores.

They are definitely liquid...possibly liquid stretched over a gas bubble, but then why are they discharging liquid and gas?
 
Unicellular?

I don't know if they are clusters of unicellular ones or individual poly-cellular organisms.

I'm not well up on fungi, all I know is I was told to get some soup for the fungal particles in the air to feed on, cover with cling film and keep for observation.
 
visceral_instinct said:
Unicellular?

I don't know if they are clusters of unicellular ones or individual poly-cellular organisms.

I'm not well up on fungi, all I know is I was told to get some soup for the fungal particles in the air to feed on, cover with cling film and keep for observation.
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Those are unicellular ;)
 
Ah, I see.

So the dots of fungi I can see are clusters of unicellular organisms?

How come they have white external parts and grey-green cores? Are they 2 different types?
 
visceral_instinct said:
Ah, I see.

So the dots of fungi I can see are clusters of unicellular organisms?

How come they have white external parts and grey-green cores? Are they 2 different types?
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I don't know much about fungi. But I suppose it has to do with the age of the fungi in different locations.

Edit: Yep, they are clusters.
 
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Probably it is just condensation, and it forms droplets because the fungus is hydrophobic.
 
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