[NatureNS] Re: Trees and Fungus

Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:54:26 -0400
From: Peter Payzant <pce@accesswave.ca>
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Thanks to David, Chris, Paul and Jim for enlightening me on this subject. I 
take it, then, that although the outer surface of the bark has a steady 
arrival of fungal spores, they don't develop there, mostly due to the dry 
environment. The failure to develop is not due to any defences that the tree 
may be producing.

If they can get inside the bark, by whatever means, they then grow. Some 
species will grow outward through the bark where they appear as "bracket" 
fungi.

Is this more or less correct?

Peter 

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