Category : Common Indoor Mold

Common Indoor Mold: Penicillium Most people are familiar with Penicillium, even if they don’t realize it. Penicillium is a common indoor mold and can frequently be found in your kitchen, colonizing fruit or bread. If you’ve ever left an orange around too long only to come back to it and find a green fuzzy mold on it, you’ve seen Penicillium. On lab media (and food), Penicillium mold is fast growing, powdery in texture, and often green or blue-green in color (Fig. 1), although some species can be whitish, yellow, gray or even reddish. There are over 200 species of Penicillium Read more