Fig. 11.6(a) Leaf print of a mature birch leaf, incubated on agar, showing a predominance of a yellow Candida-like
fungus that produced a fringe of hyphae from the leaf margin (arrowhead). (b) A single colony of the Candida-like
fungus, showing widely spaced radiating hyphae with clusters of yeast-like cells at intervals along the hyphae.(a) (b)Fig. 11.7An assortment of (mainly) darkly pigmented spores of fungi that typically colonize the dead or dying tissues
of stem bases and the above-ground parts of senescing leaves and stems.