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There is much circumstantial evidence for a role of increased P uptake in the growth response of plants to ectomycorrhizas. Full response curves with and without mycorrhizal infection along a P gradient in soil are, however, required to test this hypothesis fully. In this experiment, rooted cuttings of Salix viminalis L. cv. Bowles Hybrid were grown in a 1:2 mixture by volume of gamma‐irradiated soil and sterile sand, with bicarbonate‐extractable P concentrations of 4, 6, 10, 21, 60 or 90 mg P kg⁻¹. The cuttings were inoculated by mixing peat/vermiculite spawn of Laccaria proxima (Boud.) Pat., or Thelephora terrestris (Ehrh.) Fr., or autoclaved spawn 1: 5 by volume with the soil: sand mixture. The plants showed a positive growth response to mycorrhizal infection by either fungus at the two lower P levels, and to L. proxima only at 10 mg P kg⁻¹. At 21 mg kg⁻¹and above, infection was reduced and neither mycorrhizal …