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Macrofungi of Sitka spruce in Scotland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 December 2011

Ian Alexander  and
Roy Watling
Ian Alexander
Affiliation:
Department of Plant Science, University of Aberdeen, St Machar Drive, Aberdeen AB9 2UD, Scotland, U.K.
Roy Watling
Affiliation:
Royal Botanic Garden, Inverleith Row, Edinburgh EH3 5LR, Scotland, U.K.
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Synopsis

Eighty-four potentially mycorrhizal macrofungi have been recorded with Sitka spruce in Scotland. They derive primarily from the native flora of birch and pine and many are fungi with a wide host range. Specific mycorrhizal associates do not occur. In its native range hypogeous fungi are important but these are largely absent from Scotland. The regularly encountered mycorrhizal flora is less abundant and less diverse than that of Norway spruce or European larch and reflects the importation of Sitka spruce by seed and the ecological conditions to which it gives rise. The saprotrophic macrofungi are species which are widespread and common in a range of vegetation types.

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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Section B: Biological Sciences , Volume 93 , Issue 1-2: Sitka Spruce , 1987 , pp. 107 - 115
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1987

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