Talk:Rhizopus stolonifer

Safe to eat?

I'm wondering if a piece of bread with a little mold on it is safe to eat. In my coven we always throw the whole bag of bread in the garbage if there is any mold on the bread in the bag being careful to not even open the bag if possible, like it is the plague or something. I am wondering if it is really necessary to dispose of all that otherwise good bread just for a few spots of mold when everyone in the household is relatively healthy. Isn't cheese made from mold? Thanks! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.224.3.253 (talk • contribs) 16:34, 17 November 2008

I was wondering the same thing. I think most people have eaten a little bread mold before (usually by accident, since it tastes bad). I think that's the main reason people avoid it: it tastes particularly bad. On the other hand, I did a little Googling and a couple websites said it is toxic, and that even inhaling the airborne spores may be a serious health concern for those with compromised respiratory systems. They advised throwing away the moldy bread, not touching it, and not eating any. However, neither source was reliable enough for Wikipedia. This needs to be something addressed in the article, once a reliable source is found. In any case, my guess is that there's a good chance that bread mold is somewhat toxic, though probably not deadly unless you eat/inhale a huge amount of it. Plus, it tastes awful. At the very least, you'll want to cut off the moldy parts for the taste factor. (also, cheese uses a different, non-toxic species of mold) -kotra (talk) 19:42, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

I was wondering if, cutting off the moldy crust of bread, you've totally eradicated the mold from the main mass and rendered it safe to eat. Mold isn't just the visible part on top, there's also the mycorrhiza below the surface that spreads the mold to new patches, secretes enzymes to break down the bread, and transports nutrients to other parts of the fungus. How far into the bread to these reach? If they extend more than a few millimeters into the bread, then removing just the crust is unlikely to remove all of the mold from the bread. Going by the number of people who must have accidentally eaten bread mold, it's apparently not deadly or even harmful in small amounts... but I don't like the thought of eating mold, even if I don't know it at the time! Anyone know how deep those mycorrhiza are?-Zeke64 (talk) 16:45, 3 June 2010 (UTC)nelly403

Heterotrophic

It seemed as if one sentence in this article incorrectly implies heterotrophic relates to reproductive behavior. This might be something worth looking into. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.235.40.132 (talk) 17:54, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
Heterotrophic undoubtably refers to what the mold grows on and breaks down for nutrients (hetero= different, troph= eat) (will edit when I have the full information).Zeke64 (talk) 03:47, 7 July 2011 (UTC)Zeke64

You're both right about what heterotrophic means, but the word the article currently uses is heterothallic, which does indeed refer to reproduction. Adrian J. Hunter^{(talk•contribs)} 05:14, 7 July 2011 (UTC)

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Mold Bread

The way to have mold bread is to put it in a plastic bag and set it under the sun or under your bead. I used is sun bread and white bread and i wanted to see witch bread became mold first. So what i did is is made a chart to keep track on witch bread became mold. Sometimes people make a Bread Mold Garden. To make a garden you will need bread,sandwich ziploc bag,teaspoon, and a sharpie marking pen. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.53.212.187 (talk) 22:23, 13 January 2009 (UTC)

Renaming page to Rhizopus stolonifer

Elsewhere on Wikipedia the genus-species determines the title of the article and the common name redirects to to it. This article should be renamed. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dan Lowe (talk • contribs) 17:05, 8 October 2012 (UTC)

Proposed merge with Rhizopus nigricans

[1] [2] [3] say they are the same thing. The Master (talk) 09:22, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

• No, I think this should stand on its own and be moved to Rhizopus stolonifer. Medmyco (talk) 21:42, 10 March 2018 (UTC)