Large Oak reduction help

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Yeah I Do know that Quercia rubra isn't native tony...the point was more that the volcanic soil is low in mycorrhiza compared to Europe..

 

But what you said that I refereed to was that NZ ecosystems where less dependent on Mycorrhizae, that they had evolved to be less dependant on fungi for nutrition. Whilst you clarify your position and you could say that volcanic/pumis/ash soils will be typicaly new (ecologicaly speaking) trees simply cant take hold in such pioneering habitats WITHOUT mycorrhizae, it is precisely these hostil places environments/soils that the mycorrhizae relationships evolved in, and it would have been parralel in worldwide development evolutionary prosceses, like eyes, they evolved in many places through necsecity

[DrewB]

But you've gotta remember that in NZ the birds don't have wings, the rocks float and there are glaciers amongst sub tropical rainforest. It is a weird and wonderful place that sometimes defies logic...

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

But you've gotta remember that in NZ the birds don't have wings, the rocks float and there are glaciers amongst sub tropical rainforest. It is a weird and wonderful place that sometimes defies logic...

 

 

and with this I rest my case

 

4. Mycorrhizal fungi - Fungi - Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand

[DrewB]

Good find tony- I've never seen that site before.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Good find tony- I've never seen that site before.

 

well you know where it is now! was the first link i found!

[DrewB]

It's not the thing I generally Ever look for...

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

It's not the thing I generally Ever look for...

 

so your comments on mycorrhizae of NZ completely useless then?

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

It took me a while to find a free paper on the subject but this one (havent read anything bar the summary) will be of interest taupo

 

myco thesis.pdf

[DrewB]

so your comments on mycorrhizae of NZ completely useless then?

 

Chill tony. It's what I got told by a mycology guy here. And for the record you see very few fungi in the bush of NZ.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Chill tony. It's what I got told by a mycology guy here. And for the record you see very few fungi in the bush of NZ.

 

I put the smiley in to keep it chilled! was just teasing after you 3 x's insisted about the myco situation! dont believe everything your told.

 

The fungi are there, you just need to be there when they have sex to see them, thats all.

 

after long wet periods get out there and find them.