The fungus is a wound parasite which rapidly infects plane trees, causing disruption of water movement, cankers and eventually death.
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Due to the typically elevated fruiting habit and occurrence on dead wood, the ectomycorrhizal status of " B . ananas " has been debated; in the protolog Murrill noted " it always occurs either as a wound parasite on pine trunks or about the base of living pine trees . " All collections have been made in association with ectotrophic host trees including " Pinus " and " Quercus " species in southeastern North America and Central America, " Quercus humboldtii " in Colombia, various Fagaceae and Dipterocarpaceae species in Malaysia, and " Leptospermum " and " Pinus " species in New Zealand.
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