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Observations of Dried Shiitake Sample

Jannie | Thu, May 30, 2019, 10:32 PM


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Image of a shiitake mushroom’s gill slivers. These slivers were originally white-yellow when dried, but after creating a wet sample and seeing it under the fold scope, it was interesting to see that it was actually tan-grey in color.
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We can see the gill sliver in more detail and texture here. I observe that the sliver is made up of sheets; near the end, we see that layers of sheets get broken up and you have a much more transparent part of the the gill sample.

Descriptions of each image were done in the “captions” part of each image.

This sample was obtained from a bag of dried of shiitake mushrooms bought from HMart. The sample slide was prepared at Caltech on May 29, 2019 at 3:00 PM in my own room. To get the gills, I carefully scraped the gills of a dried mushroom and placed the small shards on a glass slide. After, I placed a drop of water before placing a slip and taping it down. #caltechbi1

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Package of the dried mushrooms
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Picture of shittake mushroom sample before scraping the gills off with tweezers


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Type of Sample
unknown
Foldscope Lens Magnification
140x

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