Tag: Trees
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Windsor Great Park 2022
Issy Kite Last week, our team had the amazing opportunity to visit Windsor Great Park and see their amazing collection of ancient and veteran trees and collect some samples! The number of ancient trees was incredible to witness and we saw many signs of wood decay fungi on the oaks. Rich showed all of us…
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Happy International Women’s day!
Happy International Women’s Day to all you incredible scientists out there! We here in the mycology group are proud of all the incredible women who are and have been a part of this fantastic team! A special shout out of course goes to Professor Lynne Boddy, a truly inspiring woman in STEM. We hope you…
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2022 Update
The lab here at Cardiff have been busy working away on a number of projects surrounding the fungal communities that exist within oak trees in the UK (primarily Quercus robur). Our current PhD student Rich Wright has been exploring this topic in great detail alongside a team of undergraduate students, via slice experiments and core…
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Beech heart rot research: autumn update
We are now well into mushroom season. These, and other fungal fruiting structures, are often described as like apples on a tree. This analogy is due to the fact that mushrooms bear the reproductive propagules that are subsequently dispersed through the local environment and sometimes farther afield. But unlike apples, mushrooms do not contain seed.…
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Fungi in Trees in the Queen’s Back Garden
Sarah Johnston On 1st August, the fungal ecology team tried a new venture: running a training day on fungi and trees for professional arboriculturists. Fungi are very important in the life of a tree, from the mycorrhizas that allow the tree to grow, to the heart-rotters that produce characteristic hollowing of ancient trees. The Microbiology…
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