Why do certain fungi grow around one type of tree in particular?
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If the relation is not intimate as in mycorrhiza as said by skeptic,there are certain fungi which thrive on exudates from roots at it's rhizosphere.So,due to this reason they are species specific.These biochemical secretions are needed for it's growth and germination of spores.
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I can think of a few:\n\nFungi are actually more closely related to animals. They get their food from living matter.\nHowever, they are different from animals because:\n\nThey absorb their food instead of ingesting it.\n\nThey have cell walls.\n\nThey are stationary, like plants.\n\nThey are different from plants because:\n\nThey are heterotrophs.\n\nThey lack roots.
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I like Katie's answer...very thorough...sounds like one of my lectures in my college Botany class...also.....due to chemical changes in the leaves and the slowing of the nutrient flow in the tree/leaves fall off due to the formation of an abscission layer of corky material  at the base of the leaf stem or petiole where it attaches to the tree twig. Cutting off water/food and it drys and weakens the attachment, then with a gust of wind shaking it loose to give us some work to rake them up.....oak trees hold tenaciously to their leaves and are often seen with some of their dry browned leaves on them throughout the winter......
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Some certainly do, most obviously the hyphal fungi. Many bacteria and yeasts do not.\n\n______\nGigi said "They are animals and therefore undergo cellular\n >>>>>>> respiration in mitochondria like all other animal"\n\n\nThat is incorrect. Decomposers are mostly fungi and bacteria, not animals.
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The kingdom fungi can be almost as diverse as animalia, so fungi have a multitude of ways they affect humans.  The main types of fungi used by humans are yeasts (single celled fungi), molds (multicellular microscopic fungi) and mushrooms.\n\nOne way they affect humans is by being parasites and invading our bodies.  Jock itch, ring worm, athlete's foot, yeast infections, and nail fungi are a few among the fungi that infest our bodies.  \n\nFungi, in the form of yeasts, can also be beneficial.  Bread, wine, beer and some cheeses get a lot of their characteristics from yeast's ability to convert sugar to carbon dioxide and alcohol.\n\nFungi also have a use in the field of medicine.  Many of our antibiotics, such as penicillin, are molds that have antibacterial properties.\n\nFungi can also be eaten, such as button mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, and oyster mushrooms.  Many mushrooms are toxic and potentiall fatal if consumed.  There are also some mushrooms who produce, as a defense, psychadelic chemicals that are used for recreation or religion.  \n\nAnd lastly, fungi help with the cycle of life by having a role in decomposition of organic matter.  By processing dead plant and animal remains and waste, fungi help return those nutrients back into the ecosystem.
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on a tree...have a look if there are some silver white or green patches (not moss) and scrape some off....there are lots of lichens about if you know where to look
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There are a few different levels of reasons for this. \nBecause if skunks were a different colour they wouldn't be skunks - we might call them "pink polkadot smellybeasts" and that would make them a different creature.\nBecause brightly coloured skunks don't survive - Try it out, paint a skunk pink and see how long it lasts.\nBecause 'trees' covers an entire xylum of species - just about everything with a trunk - but skunk covers a specific species. There are is a lot more room for colour variation when you've got 1000s of different species.
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Cytospora cankers usually are found on trees that have been damaged by cold temperatures or drought.  They can be seen on trunks and branches.
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Fungi are chemoautotrophs, so they don't hunt for anything. \nBut I'd hunt for them, oyster mushrooms are delicious!
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Fungi is the plural of Fungus.
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Most likely fungal cell walls
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Scientifically i should say fungi. But if not, i would say hmmm?
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It is a multicellular, filamentous fungus called Rhizopus
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Because fungus grows very slowly, and most of the things that they use to treat it kill it by not letting it reproduce.  So if it reproduces slowly, it takes a long time to treat.
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Multicellular fungi are composed networks of long hollow tubes called hyphae. The hyphae often aggregate in a dense network known as mycelium. The mycelium grows through the substrate on which the fungus feeds.
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its perfectly normal,dude...fungi grows on everything that can expire or dies... thats how they live.
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Initially a spore (the fungal equivalent of a seed) lands on some suitable ground. It starts to grow underground, pushing out mycelium (fungal threads) in all directions. As the mass of mycelium grows the central part dies off, leaving a disc of mycelium growing at the outer edge. Eventually, when season and weather allow, mushrooms are produced above the mycelium and release spores. Sometimes, several years may go by before mushrooms are seen at a fairy ring. The underground presence of the fungus sometimes causes withering or varying colour or growth of the grass above.