Can any expert tell me if this is honey fungus?...
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I can find no trace of the black bootlaces that I've read about.

If it is nasty - how can I stop it spreading?

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Jim

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Can any expert tell me if this is honey fungus?...
http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/2023956

I can find no trace of the black bootlaces that I've read about.

If it is nasty - how can I stop it spreading?

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Jim

This site
http://www.gardenaction.co.uk/techni...ney_fungus.htm
should help you identify it.

Regards,
Emrys Davies.

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Can any expert tell me if this is honey fungus?...
http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/2023956

I can find no trace of the black bootlaces that I've read about.

If it is nasty - how can I stop it spreading?

You've got at least two different species there, haven't you?

It would help if we could have a pic of the underside too. Gill colour
and the way it attaches to the stem is important.
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Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"

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should help you identify it.

Thanks Emrys - I've read many sites but none has enabled me to identify
the fungus with any confidence.

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Jim

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You've got at least two different species there, haven't you?
I put it down to different stages of growth, but you may well be right.
The ones that have sprung up around a live tree have a more rounded cap
(?).

It would help if we could have a pic of the underside too. Gill colour
and the way it attaches to the stem is important.
I've also uploaded some pix of the undersides - does it help you
identify it?
http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/2023956

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Jim

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Can any expert tell me if this is honey fungus?...
http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/2023956

I can find no trace of the black bootlaces that I've read about.

If it is nasty - how can I stop it spreading?

Jim, Honey fungus is reputed to glow in the dark as per this article:

"Does Honey Fungus Glow in the dark?
Astonishingly yes it does!

Aristotle wrote about this
In medieval times they lit hay barns with clusters of rhizomorphs and
roots covered with rhizomorphs were considered to have medical power.
These were the original magic wands.
Soldiers in World War 1 put pieces of decaying wood on their helmets;
the glow helped them avoid comrades in nighttime trenches.
In World War 2 fire wardens covered timber stacks to prevent enemy
aircraft spotting them.
Keeping the wood moist (but not saturated) and at a temperature of
between 10 and 25 degrees C will maximise light output".

Regards,
Emrys Davies.

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Honey fungus is reputed to glow in the dark

Hmm. No detectable glowing. So no positive proof it is honey fungus. On
the other hand it doesn't show it isn't honey fungus!

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I've also uploaded some pix of the undersides - does it help you
identify it?
http://www.photobox.co.uk/album/2023956

Yes, honey fungus.

The young caps are good pickled, or cooked like you'd cook mushrooms.
Larger caps can be chopped and added to dishes, but by themselves are a
bit bland and not altogether a pleasant consistency.

Older caps and some of the younger stipes can be dried and powdered (in
a liquidiser) and the powder added to flavor and thicken stews,
casseroles, savoury pancakes, omlettes, etc.

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Rusty
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Are they all honey fungus? The ones in the grass look to have thinner
caps.

All the ones I looked at were.

Once you've seen and handled and smelt them you'll always know them.
There are two forms of Armillaria mellea: one is chunkier than the
other.

There's not much you can confuse it with, except perhaps Galerina
mutabilis - and that's a much better mushroom from the culinary point of
view, and I expect many trees would think so too, but for different
reasons...

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should help you identify it.

Thanks Emrys - I've read many sites but none has enabled me to identify
the fungus with any confidence.

http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/galle...k~bid~5569.asp


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Jim

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Yes, honey fungus.

Ok Thanks. Need to go and try to dispose of it all then!

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Jim

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| Ok Thanks. Need to go and try to dispose of it all then!

Why? Realistically, the only thing to do with that is to live
with it, which may including attempting to reduce its spread,
but it is ubiquitous in the UK.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

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Yes, honey fungus.

Ok Thanks. Need to go and try to dispose of it all then!

Frying pan.

But you won't eradicate it - and it's becoming accepted that it only
attacks ailing trees and shrubs anyway.

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Need to go and try to dispose of it all then!

Why?

My thinking was that removing it would at least stop it spreading spores
and might weaken it? Would I be wasting my time?

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My thinking was that removing it would at least stop it spreading spores
and might weaken it? Would I be wasting my time?

Yes.

It'll stop it from spreading spores just as well if you cook the fruit
bodies. (or otherwise destroy them, but, what a waste!)

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