Green Rot Mold

Description:

So I've started a project with these kids at the science center to show how fungi effects common foods in both good and bad ways. This is one of the bad ways, green rot mold is a major source of post harvest decay in citrus fruit. Despite being found native to where citrus fruits grow and needing citrus fruit (in this case a tangelo) to become a necrotroph they have been isolated from other foods such as hazelnuts.

Habitat:

Found in the soil where citrus fruit grows.