15/Aug/2026, 11:33 PM
Tallinn, Harju, Eesti
Home lab room Culture on white Camembert cheese
Local shop
Original Instagram postPenicillium camemberti
Camembert mold
- Scientific identification
- Penicillium camemberti Thom
- Family
- Aspergillaceae
- Class
- Eurotiomycetes
- Genus
- Penicillium
Names across languages
- English: Camembert mold
- German: Camembert-Schimmel
- Finnish: Valkohome
- Estonian: Camemberti pintselhallik
- Russian: Пеницилл Камамбер
The scientific profile
From the latest record: 2026-08-16.
Body
Fast-growing, dense, white, floccose to cottony mould forming the characteristic bloomy rind of soft cheeses; colonies remain predominantly white
Description
Spore mass white to very pale cream
Description
Domesticated saprobic fungus specialised for cheese surfaces, especially Camembert, Brie and other bloomy-rind cheeses; grows well in cool, protein- and lipid-rich environments
Description
Deliberately cultivated to form the rind and contribute characteristic flavour, aroma and texture
Fruit body
Microscopic filamentous mould forming visible white colonies that may cover the entire cheese surface
Dimensions
Colony size variable with substrate and culture conditions; typically forms a continuous felt-like rind rather than discrete fruit bodies
Odour
Mushroom-like, creamy, fatty to mildly ammoniacal during advanced cheese ripening
Taste
Mild, mushroomy, creamy and characteristic when growing as an intended cheese-ripening culture
Microscopy
Conidiophores typically terverticillate with rough-walled stipes; conidia smooth, ellipsoid to subglobose, ~3–5×2.5–4.5 µm, produced in chains
Overview
Domesticated white cheese mould forming the soft, snowy rind of Camembert and Brie
1906). Bull. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau Animal Industry 82: 33.
Field encounters
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