Eurotium Cristatum Postfermentation of Fireweed and Apple Tree Leaf Herbal Teas

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Seven-day fungal growth on media (a) Czapek, (b) Sabouraud, (c) modified agar medium #2 Gause, and (d) mineral agar medium #1 Gause; (e) cleistothecia on Sabouraud medium after 4 days of growth; (f) conidiophores on Sabouraud medium with 40% of glucose after 21 days of growth, upper part of the colony; (g) destroyed cleistothecia and asci; (h) conidiophore with single-row phialides covering the conidiophore’s head and chains of conidia; (i) asci and ascospores; (j) chains of conidia separated by disjunctors.

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