It occurs in association with cuprite, brochantite, linarite, caledonite, malachite, chrysocolla and its polymorphs.
Formalin/malachite green have also been used to successfully treat individuals infected with chytridiomycosis.
Malachite green is applied to the slide, which can penetrate the tough walls of the endospores, staining them green.
Associated minerals include azurite, calcite, malachite, and smithsonite.
Specimens tend to lighten in color over time due to weathering of the specimen surface into malachite.
Ores most amenable to leaching include the copper carbonates malachite and azurite, the oxide tenorite, and the silicate chrysocolla.
It is also known as the red-tufted sunbird and the scarlet-tufted malachite sunbird.
A malachite green counterstain gives a blue-green background cast to the surrounding tissue.
