Content and Bioaccumulation of Nine Mineral Elements in Ten Mushroom Species of the Genus Boletus

Table 6

Correlation matrix that gives the relationship between element concentrations of stipes and underlying soil.

Elements in soils	Elements in mushrooms
	Ca	Cu	Fe	K	Mg	Mn	Na	P	Zn
Ca	0.727	0.133	0.423	0.307	0.469	0.374	0.234	0.62	0.204
Cu	0.482	0.6	0.6	0.33	0.721	0.112	0.472	0.659	−0.156
Fe	0.452	0.601	0.569	0.405	0.719	0.113	0.452	0.693	−0.057
K	0.094	−0.173	0.445	−0.384	−0.544	0.537	−0.422	−0.307	0.054
Mg	0.336	0.091	0.718	−0.439	−0.145	0.628	−0.316	−0.103	−0.318
Mn	0.495	0.181	0.497	0.224	0.435	0.334	0.233	0.474	−0.197
Na	−0.164	0.281	0.175	−0.464	−0.253	0.47	0.089	−0.442	−0.571
P	0.522	−0.056	0.171	0.295	0.027	0.05	0.359	0.378	0.338
Zn	0.466	0.505	0.26	0.626	0.824	−0.126	0.684	0.818	−0.012

Correlation is significant at the 0.05 level (2-tailed).
Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).