After seeing my latest microscopic images from the Scoby sheet with Methylene Blue I noticed I have a significant amount of images with a specific pattern. My first encounter with a Scoby was with a circular little mat. I'm wondering if this is why I enjoyed this patterns.
In a way I see them as little planets. Thousands of organisms building something together.
Since people are brewing Kombucha around the world there is evidence that the environment in which the kombucha grows diversifies the microorganisms crating the Bacterial pellicle.
Alan Marsh and colleagues attempts to broadly define the typical community within kombucha in this this paper
