Types of Mycorrhizal Plants

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In order to find out more information on your plant and what works best, please identify whether it is an Endomycorrhizal plant, Ectomycorrhizal plant or a non-mycorrhizal plant.

Endomycorrhizal Plants:

90% of Plants – Mostly Green, Leafy Plants and most Commercially Produced Plants. Shrubs and foliage plants except for Rhododendron, Azalea, and Heath; Berries except for blue-berries, cranberries and lingonberries; Nut trees except pecan, hazelnuts and filberts. Flowers, Vegetables except Brassica and beets, cultivated grasses except weedy grasses; Fruit trees including tropical fruits; many wetland/aquatic species except rushes and horsetails.

Some of the commercially important plant groups that benefit from ENDO-mycorrhizal fungi:

Acacia Agapanthus Alder (Endo/Ecto) Alfalfa Almond Apple Apricot Artichoke Ash Asparagus Aspen(Endo/Ecto) Avocado Bamboo Banana Barley Basil Bayberry Beans, all Beech Begonia Black Cherry Blackberry Black Locust Blue Gramma Box Elder Boxwood Buckeye Bulbs, all Cacao Cactus Camellia Carrisa Carrot

Cassava Ceanothus Cedar Celery Cherry Chrysanthemum Citrus, all Clover Coconut Coffee Coral Tree Corn Cotton Cottonwood (Endo/Ecto) Cowpea Crab Tree Creosote Cryptomeria Cucumber Currant Cypress Dogwood Eggplant Elm Eucalyptus Euonymus Fern Fescue Fig Flax Flowers, most all Forsythia Fuchsia

Gardenia Garlic Geranium Grapes, all Grasses, perennials Green Ash Guayule Gum Hackberry Hawthorn Hemp Herbs, all Hibiscus Holly Hostas Impatiens Jatropha Jojoba Juniper Kiwi Leek Lettuce Ligustrum Lily Locust Lychee Mahogany Magnolia Mahonia Mango Maples, all Marigolds

Mesquite Millet Mimosa Morning Glory Mulberry Myrtle Nasturtium Okra Olive Onion Pacific Yew Palms, all Pampas Grass Passion Fruit Papaya Paw Paw Peas Peach Peanut Pear Peppers, all Pistachio Persimmon Pittosporum Plum Podocarpus Poinsettia Poplar Potato Pumpkin Raspberry Redwood Rice

Rose Rubber Ryegrass Sagebrush Saltbrush Serviceberry Sequoia Shallot Snapdragon Sorghum Sourwood Soybean Squash Star Fruit Strawberry Succulents Sudan Grass Sugar Cane Sumac Sunflower Sweet Gum Sweet Potato Sycamore Taxus Tea Tobacco Tomato Violets Wheat Yam Yucca Willow (Endo/Ecto)

5% of Plants – Mainly Conifers & Oaks – more woody plants.

Some commercially important plant groups that benefit from ECTO-mycorrhizal fungi:

Alder (Endo/Ecto) Arborvitae Arctostaphylos Aspen (Endo/Ecto) Basswood Beech

Birch Chestnut Chinquapin Cottonwood (Endo/Ecto) Douglas fir Eucalyptus

Filbert Fir Hazelnut Hickory Hemlock Larch

Linden Madrone Manzanita Oak Pecan Pine

Poplar Spruce Walnut Willow (Endo/Ecto)

Non-mycorrhizal

5% of Plants form other relationship types which are “Non-mycorrhizal” – The following Plants or Plant Groups “do not” respond to ENDO or ECTO Mycorrhizal fungi:

Brassica Family Broccoli Brussels Cabbage Cauliflower Collards Kale Rutabaga

Ericaceae Family Azalea Blueberry Cranberry Heath Huckleberry Lingonberries Rhododendron

Others Beet Carnation Mustard Orchids Protea Rush Sedge Spinach

Over 95% of the world’s plant species form with mycorrhizae and require the association for maximum performance in the field.

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