Foreign fungi are invading nation From: The Scotsman | Date: October 20, 2004| Author: JAMES REYNOLDS ENVIRONMENT CORRESPONDENT | Copyright 2004 The Scotsman. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

SIX species of fungi have been found in Scotland for the first time, providing yet more evidence of the general warming of the British climate.

The fungi are understood to have migrated north of the Border because of the increasingly mild winters, which have led to an extension of the traditional autumn mushroom season by as much as four weeks in the past 15 years, The Scotsman has learned.

Professor Roy Watling, the former head of mycology at the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburg...

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