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This ectomycorrhizal fungus forms a symbiotic relationship known as mycorrhizae, especially with Pinus species. [6] It is commonly found in pine forests [12] as well as plant nursery soils world wide. [13] This fungus is known to get water and nutrients from far away [14] and being capable of growing in both low fertility and high fertility ...
Calocera viscosa is a species of fungus in the family Dacrymycetaceae.In the UK, it has the recommended English name of yellow stagshorn. [1] In North America it is variously called coral jelly fungus, [2] jelly staghorn, [3] yellow false coral, [4] yellow tuning fork, [5] and jelly antler. [6]
A striking and easily recognised fungus, Plums and Custard takes its common name from its plum-red scaled cap and crowded custard yellow gills. The flesh is cream-coloured and spore print creamy white. The base colour of the cap under the purplish scales is yellow. [1] Cap: convex becoming bell-shaped then flattening with age.
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The exact nature of the relationship between endophytic fungus and host depends on the species involved, and in some cases fungal colonization of plants can bestow a higher resistance against insects, roundworms (nematodes), and bacteria; in the case of grass endophytes the fungal symbiont produces poisonous alkaloids, which can affect the ...
Nigrospora sphaerica is an airborne filamentous fungus in the phylum Ascomycota. It is found in soil, air, and plants as a leaf pathogen. [2] It can occur as an endophyte where it produces antiviral and antifungal secondary metabolites. [3] Sporulation of N. sphaerica causes its initial white coloured colonies to rapidly turn black. [1]
Favolaschia calocera, commonly known as the orange pore fungus, is a species of fungus in the family Mycenaceae. [1] Due to its form it is also known as orange pore conch or orange Ping-Pong bat. [2] Throughout much of its expanded range F. calocera is now considered an invasive species. It colonizes ruderal sites along transport routes and can ...
Albertus Magnus was the first to record it in his work De vegetabilibus some time before 1256, [11] commenting "vocatur fungus muscarum, eo quod in lacte pulverizatus interficit muscas" ("it is called the fly mushroom because it is powdered in milk to kill flies"). [12] Showing the partial veil under the cap dropping away to form a ring around ...