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| Patch of Tiny Plants |
Mold
is really a patch of tiny plants. Tiny molds “seeds” called spores are
carried away by currents of air. When they land on a material they can
use as food, the spores grow into new mold plants.
If
you leave a piece of damp bread in the kitchen, in a few days it will be
enclosed with a fuzzy bluish – or greenish-gray - patch of mold. Mold
comes from tiny specks in the air, called spores, the “seeds” of the
mold. It is really a tiny, simple plant which belongs to the fungi
group. If you look with a microscope, you will see a tangle of threadlike
growth. The thread serve much the same purpose as roots.
Small
rods tapped with little dark knobs grow upward from the threads. The
knobs contain the spores. When the spores are ripe they burst from the
knobs and are carried away by air currents.
When
a spore lands on material that it can use as good, the spore grows into a new
mold plant. Mold cannot make their own food as green plants do.
They must live on food made by other plants or animals. – Dick Rogers
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