What type(s) of mold do I have growing on my agar plate?

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I've been doing a lot of leaf printing and I need help identifying the pink and red colonies residing on some of my TSA plates.

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Dawn Aubin Microscopic analysis of mixed fungi culture can give you wrong results, it is better to make a number of single-spore isolates first.

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