He also advised people not to sweep up ash leaves to avoid stirring up fungus spores.

Mulching the plants with shredded bark will stop fungus spores splashing from the ground up on to the plants.

The blue stain fungus spores germinate and produce a thread like mass (mycelium) that colonizes the phloem and sapwood.

Breaking the tuft provides the most common entrance for fungi spores during storage.

In the 1890s her mycological illustrations and research into the reproduction of fungus spores generated interest from the scientific establishment.