Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Past its Use by Date
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If you have ever gone away on holiday and forgot that you left some cheese in the cheese dish, then ....
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..... this will be a familiar sight when you return home. This slab of Cheddar has become .........
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...... a battleground for fungal colonies ............
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....... that jostle for supremacy when the colonies collide, and in doing so create a rather attractive, furry abstract design.
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Once the mould has smothered the cheese surface its time to reproduce ....
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..... via stalked sporangia ......
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.... that resemble little white pom-poms...
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.... each of which releases .......
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... vast numbers of these minute conidiospores, each just a few thousands of a millimetre in diameter.
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