What do molds really look like?
The world of nature teems with endless beauties that please our eyes. We expect the trees to grow in handsome shapes and the flowers to paint themselves in pretty colors. We admire most of the animals that we see and enjoy their graceful elegance. Our eyes need never run short of things to admire in nature, and we tend to suspect these beauties of form and color are there dust to please us but if this were so, nature’s artwork would include only the plants and animals that are big enough for our eyes to see. As we probe with magnifying glasses and microscopes We discover this is not true that tiny living things are dust as handsome as their seeable relatives. We share our planet with multitudes of microscopic plants and animals. some of them, such as the molds and mildews, throng together in teeming masses. Our eyes see these swarming populations as blurry patches of green or gray, yellow or sooty black. Magnified under a microscope, a mold becomes a miniature garden of separate plants
