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   "treelike"  wrote in message   
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   ................... Pine forest is not quite so good for me. I never find   
   Ceps   
   under pine............................   
      
   Short talked suillus --(suillus brevipes) grows with long needle pine and   
   white spruce.   
   It likes sandy soil, but I have a place with loamy soil that has bunches.   
   This place is a 'nature' planting. One half long needle pine\one half short   
   needle spruce. The varieties of mushrooms change tree by tree. (mycorrhiza,   
   of course)   
   Kurt   
      
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   > "Irene Andersson"  wrote in message   
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   >> I beleive in leaving things to grow where they appear by themselves,   
   >> especially trees, because I think that creates the most natural and   
   >> healthy forests.   
   >> It's sad to see them being cut down one after another and replaced   
   >> with large mono-cultures of pine or spruce.   
   >   
   > I hate to see any forest get cut down but I feel I must speak up for   
   > spruce   
   > plantations where, here in Scotland, I find most Ceps and Chanterelles,   
   > occasionally in ridiculously large quantities. The addition of a few birch   
   > to the spruce forest does seem to catalyse the fungal growth though, plus   
   > you usually have some attractive Amanita muscaria to look at while on the   
   > mushroom hunt. Pine forest is not quite so good for me. I never find Ceps   
   > under pine.   
   >   
   > Of course this is me looking at the subject in a purely selfish way   
   > (thinking about my stomach).   
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