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Olive Green Mold
The best-known Chaetomium: a cellulose-decomposing mold of soil, plant debris and water-damaged buildings, and a competitor of the button mushroom in compost. Its growth signals compost that still holds ammonia after Phase II pasteurization, and yield falls in proportion to how far it spreads. It produces mycotoxins, notably chaetoglobosins.
Not edible. Produces mycotoxins (chaetoglobosins A and C, mollicellins).
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