Many wood-rotting Basidiomycetes,
such
as some species of Phellinus,cause heart rots of living
trees.
The fungi usually are not pathogenic because they decay only the
non-conducting
heartwood and do not invade living tissues. However, heartrots do
weaken trees, and wind, ice storms, and even gravity may cause main
stems
to crack and branches to break.
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