Different fungi grow on trees, including cap fungus, shelf fungus, and jelly fungus ... Make sure to correctly identify any mushrooms before eating. Many lookalikes are poisonous.

Like most fungi, the bulk of this species’ living tissue ... see growing in the shape of a rounded shelf jutting out from the trunk or branch of the tree. Pheasant Back “shelves” can occur ...

“A certified arborist has the training to assess whether the wood rot has affected the structure of the tree.” Many kinds of fungi can cause wood rot. Some are readily visible as shelf or ...

University of Alberta research is showing how trees and fungi team up to survive and stay healthy against insect attacks—an ...

A meander through the woods now will show many fungi that stick out from the sides of trees and logs. These shelf fungi (bracket) can be of various sizes and shapes. Unlike the typical mushrooms ...

Mosses of several species grow as green carpets covering ... the dry times of September and October. Various shelf fungi continue to hug trees, but another catches my eye, one often passed by ...

and softwood trees, plus palms. There are many different species of this fungus, but only one species is a pathogen of palms in Florida. That fungus is Ganoderma zonatum. The conk is the ...

When trees and soil fungi form close associations with each other, both partners benefit. Many tree species have further enhanced this cooperation by forming a concurrent symbiosis with two ...

This photo illustrates hyphae - a branching filament that is the main form of vegetative growth for a fungus. Fungi in the soil interact with trees to ... (hemlock varnish shelf fungus), lion ...

We visit an orchard where researchers are breeding Chestnut trees they hope will one day fight off a fungus that's been ... we mean that the genetics of the two species become mixed.

Stretching from British Columbia, Canada down to parts of California and east to Montana, live the whitebark pine. The tree grows in subalpine and timberline zones — elevations anywhere from ...