Pilobolus

Gerd · Post by **Gerd** » Sun Feb 13, 2011 1:42 pm

Pilobolus is a genus of fungi that commonly grows on herbivore dung.
The picture shows the sporangium carrier with the black hat, that contains thousands of spores.
It always grows towards the light and the black hat with spores is ejected up to 2 meters.
With the plants the spores will be eaten by animals and after the intestinal passage the life cycle
begins again.
Incident brightfield, magnification about 150x
Thanks for looking,
Gerd

Ecki · Post by **Ecki** » Tue Feb 15, 2011 10:47 am

Nice one!

Franz Neidl · Post by **Franz Neidl** » Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:19 am

Hello Gerd,

congratulations for your interesting picture!
I would like to know what kind of objective did you use. A special one for incident light?

Franz

Gerd · Post by **Gerd** » Sun Feb 20, 2011 4:17 pm

Hello Franz,
this one was taken with a 10x Objective that i normally use for
all microscopic contrast methods, it is no material science objective
especially designed fir incident illumination.
Thank you,
many greetings,
Gerd