NOTES ON THE CANADIAN TUCKAHOE, ITS OCCURRENCE IN CANADA AND THE INTERFERTILITY OF ITS PERFECT STAGE, POLYPORUS TUBERASTER JACQ. EX FRIES

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The Canadian tuckahoe is the perennial sclerotium of Polyporus tuberaster jacq. ex Fries. It is commonly found in the parkland belt of the Canadian prairies where land supporting, virgin poplar groves, mainly Populus tremuloides Michx., is being brought under cultivation. Sporophore as many as three to a single sclerotium, appear in late June and July. Interfertility studies with single spore cultures isolated from sporophores derived from four sources in Western Canada and from one source in Italy have shown that both the Canadian fungus and the European P. tuberaster are heterothallic, have the tetrapolar type of interfertility, and are interfertile.

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