Nelson Bays Mycorrhizas www.mycorrhizas.co.nz
Plant root-zone soil micro-biomes: Plant and Soil Fungal Partnerships
sun - leaves - shoots - roots - mycorrhizal fungi - soil - water & nutrients
sun - leaves - shoots - roots - mycorrhizal fungi - soil - water & nutrients
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ABOUT NELSON BAYS MYCORRHIZAS
Nelson Bays Mycorrhizas provides commercial crop growers and private gardeners with scientific consultancy services, microscopy services, practical gardening and land management and biological advice about plant and soil microbial ecology. Our expert advisory services aim to assist growers to understand how to maintain the co-evolved benefits of existing and locally adapted soil biology.
If examinations of the history of your soil sites and or vegetation indicate the likelihood of degraded soil biological populations, it may become necessary for growers to learn methods to collect, propagate, redistribute and inoculate degraded soils and plant roots with 'eco-sourced' soil microbial partners from nearby and more healthy soils associated with similar plant roots.
Plant roots of most food crops & NZ native plants form symbioses (partnerships) with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF)
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Cranberries & Blueberries belong the Heather or Erica family. Ericoid mycorrhizal fungi associated with roots and soils of related heather weeds & NZ native shrubs can provide sources of beneficial fungal partners (symbionts) for these valuable & tasty food crops.
Ripe Cranberry fruits contain a hollow air space that enables them to float in their wetland habitats
Prickly Mingimingi (Leptecophylla juniperina) grows in acidic leaf litter & forest shade of Black Beech (Nothofagus solandri), & or in peat swamps in the shade of Maanuka (Leptospermum scoparium).
The fruit of Prickly Mingimingi (Leptecophylla juniperina) have a similar appearance to the fruit of Cranberries & Blueberries
Both Blueberries and Cranberries are native to North America and Canada. Eating these fruit provide healthy anti-oxidants. Blueberries have been collected by first nation people for thousands of years for eating & for dyeing fabrics.