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sometimes called saprobes.
Saprotrophic plants or
bacterial flora are
called saprophytes (sapro- 'rotten material' + -phyte 'plant'),
although it is now believed[citation...
- Look up
saprophyte in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Saprophyte may
refer to: Saprotrophs; organisms,
particularly fungi,
which obtain nutrients directly...
- The
honey fungus,
Armillaria mellea, is a
parasite of trees, and a
saprophyte feeding on the
trees it has killed....
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mycorrhizal (non-parasitic) genus.
Because Armillaria is a
facultative saprophyte, it also
feeds on dead
plant material,
allowing it to kill its host, unlike...
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polypore fungus, it is
found in
Eastern Australia,
where it
grows as a
saprophyte on rotting,
buried wood.
Amauroderma means "dark/dusky-skinned" (from...
- made up of
tubelike pores rather than gills.
Laetiporus sulphureus is a
saprophyte and
occasionally a weak parasite,
causing brown cubical rot in the heartwood...
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soils may be as
harmless or even
beneficial plant endophytes or soil
saprophytes, many
strains within the F.
oxysporum complex are soil
borne pathogens...
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beneficial commensals,
which grow on the skin and
mucous membranes, and
saprophytes,
which grow
mainly in the soil and in
decaying matter. The
blood and...
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common species found in
Europe and
North America,
where it
grows as a
saprophyte in meadows, roadsides, hedgerows, gardens, and
woodchip mulch. S. caerulea...
- only a few
small outdoor sites where log
cultivation is practiced. As a
saprophyte that
occurs on dead wood, H. erinaceus
requires adequate substrate factors...
