Honey fungus

Armillariella mellea

currently accepted name: Armillaria mellea (1871) — accepted name according to GBIF; the catalogue keeps the familiar one

Genus Armillaria. Family Physalacriaceae. Order Agaricales.

Honey fungus — Photographs 1 — **Honey fungus.**
Photo Jean-Pol GRANDMONT

Description

The honey fungus (Armillariella mellea) is mostly parasitic, attacking some 200 species of trees and shrubs and, more rarely, herbaceous plants such as potato; it causes white rot of wood. It grows in large clusters on the trunks of living trees and on their stumps — single fruit bodies are very rare — and spreads to unaffected trees by means of rhizomorphs. Translated from a Russian-language source.

Traits

Edibility: Edible

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Photographs

Honey fungus — Photographs 4 — **Honey fungus.**
Photo Виталия Гуменюка

Honey fungus

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