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Originally Posted by gersmit  I cannot see any fungus in the ground really? We have been having very wet rainy season - isnt the ground perhaps to wet for the tree? also why would this tree die while the same trees right next to it (4 m) on both sides is flourishing??? |
If you read through this thread and follow the links there you will be an expert in no time.
Nursery Standards
Wood, the stuff trees are made of only degrades in a few possible way. If we eliminate fire, ice, mechanical process etc what we have left is fungi and bacteria. When the wood in your house gets soft and breaks it's fungi. When the wood gets dry and brittle and snaps easily it is also fungi. Lots of different fungi's around.
I once bought a mushroom farm from Bunnings, you know the type, cardboard box with peat moss and you just add water and wella ... mushrooms. When I opened the box and didn't see any fungi do you think I tried to return it and I was ripped off?
Dont confuse fungi as the fruiting bodies and mushrooms you see, they're nearly microscopic. Here have a look at the size from a filter place.... they're about the same size as bacteria and you know you never to get see those guys so you can drive around them and not catch a cold.
Bacteria, Fungi and Viruses, Sizes and Significance
Oh by the way, a µm is
one thousandth of a millimetre 
So why do some people catch a cold and others not?