Sat 15 May 2021 10:37AM
mycorrhizal network
I planted the beginnings of a FG in my front garden earlier this year and today I discovered it was full of little tiny toadstools. Great! I thought...that’ll help the trees. Does anybody know if developing a mycorrhizal network will benefit any of the other perennials. I’m wondering ‘What’s the interplay between the trees, fungi and other perennials.’
Nickie Bartlett / Jakeman Sat 15 May 2021 1:48PM
Could they be from the rotted horse manure underneath?
Sagara Swier Sat 15 May 2021 11:43AM
It is my understanding that there are two broad categories of fungi: xylophagous fungus breakdown dead wood whereasmycorrhiza fungi forms symbiotic associations with living plants. Give the fungis you have photographed is in wood chips suggest this is a xylophagous fungus
Nigel Crawley · Sun 16 May 2021 3:00PM
From the book 'teaming with microbes': Annuals prefer their nitrogen in nitrate form and do best in bacterially dominated soils, whereas perennials prefer their nitrogen in ammonium form and do best in fungally dominated soils. It makes sense when you think of where wild plants grow and when they grow in the cycle of ecological succession. 🙂