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Ergot is the common name of a fungus in the genus Claviceps that is parasitic on certain grains and grasses. The form the fungus takes to winter-over is...

by botanists to parasitic diseases. These diseases are of two classes,—those due to bacteria or microbes, and those due to parasitic fungi. For an account...

all of its nutriment therefrom. Parasitic plants are numerous, but the larger part of them are to be found among the fungi and the bacteria. These two classes...

All Species in this genus are myco-heterotrophic, i.e. they are parasitic upon fungi. The Genus is spread throughout Asia (Madagascar to Japan) and contains...

conditions weaken the plants and allow them to fall a prey to the minute parasitic fungi which live upon the decaying vegetable matter in the soil, and can remain...

Horticulture EUMYCETES A very large and important group of saprophytic or parasitic organisms (fungi) without chlorophyll: thallus (mycelium) composed of fine tubular...

the power to attack the sound unbroken skin of fruits or vegetables. Parasitic fungi causing decay in transit are usually orchard or field diseases that...

substance that kills fungi or their spores. The word is used particularly for those substances employed in the warfare against parasitic fungi. A satisfactory...

known as tinder mushroom, is a fungus in Hymenochaetaceae family. It is a parasitic fungus of the Birch and other trees. The sterile conk is irregularly formed...

Fungi are not plants, they are in their own kingdom. They were once classified as plants however. Do you have cultivation info on this plant? Edit this...

physical support on foliage leaves rather than to those that are parasitic on them as are the fungi. Epiphyllous plants are likely to be most abundant in the...

Cyclopedia of Horticulture PHYCOMYCETES. A large group of parasitic or saprophytic organisms (fungi), without chlorophyll: thallus (mycelium) of much-branched...

belong to the Peronosporaceae, a group of fungi widely separated from the true mildews. The mycelium is parasitic within the tissues of the host, only the...

both fresh and preserved, vegetables, and so on. The moulds are very simple fungi producing immense numbers of spores, a fact which accounts for their presence...

other tooth fungi, and so on. Mushroom has been used for polypores, puffballs, jelly fungi, coral fungi, bracket fungi, stinkhorns, and cup fungi. Mushrooms...

have so changed their food habits that they are no longer green. Thus parasitic plants that secure carbohydrates from living organisms, having no need...

are terrestrials and even a few myco-heterotrophs, which are parasitic upon mycorrhizal fungi. They typically contain the remaining orchids with a single...

good protection. The foliage and fruit of the pear are attacked by parasitic fungi, which cause the leaves to drop and the fruit to become scabby. These...

properties, lingzhi has been found to be anti-inflammatory, antiviral, anti-parasitic, anti-fungal, antidiabetic, anti-hypotensive, and protective of the liver...

originally saprophytic, but has recently assumed a virulent parasitic development. Among the fungi we class as saprophytes all plants which live upon a dead...