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Specific Families and Genera => Pleione and Orchidaceae => Topic started by: mark smyth on July 21, 2012, 07:57:11 PM

Title: feeding hairs or symbiotic fungus?
Post by: mark smyth on July 21, 2012, 07:57:11 PM

feeding hairs or symbiotic fungus?

Title: Re: feeding hairs or symbiotic fungus?
Post by: mark smyth on July 25, 2012, 08:14:56 PM

Nobody knows?

Title: Re: feeding hairs or symbiotic fungus?
Post by: Maggi Young on July 25, 2012, 09:31:48 PM

Ian posted pix like that in a Bulb Log... he felt they could be fungal threads.... but some thought they were feeding roots.  I would expect even the finest feeding roots to have a bit more substance than the "attachments" Ian pictured.  Those "melted" away with toouch, which certainly suggests a fungal context to me.