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Penicillium chrysogenum
I have an indoor composting bin in my garage to break down waste and go into my garden. I guess things are a little too wet because this morning I discovered some of the branches I had placed in the bin to be broken down had this blue-ish gray mold on it, which I later was able to have a friend indentify as p. chyrosgenum. A harmless form of the penicillium genus, this one gives us lots of helpful medicines like penicillin. It's named as such due to the paintbrush-esque appearance of their spores. Penicillus is Latin for paintbrush.
Found in North America.
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