A – In actuality, there are a lot of molds that look black. The type of black mold that made the news years ago, associated with a lot of ill health effects, was called Stachybotrys (pronounced ‘stack-ee-bot-riss’). However, there are a lot of other molds that look black, and are fairly common; not all black molds are Stachybotrys. There are many toxic molds, and they come in a variety of colors.