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Honey fungus or just mushrooms?

MrsGardenMrsGarden Posts: 3,951
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ID and Advice please 

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  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384
    edited October 2018
    Could be HF but need a photo of the gills and stem of one to see if the ring (where the cap used to join the stem) looks right.
    What is it growing on?  Is that a stump in the ground behind a wall or something?  I can't tell from the photo.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • MrsGardenMrsGarden Posts: 3,951
    Thanks Bob, it's a stump (Holly or conifer) I dug out a few weeks ago. I'll get another photo when I get home.
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    At very first glance I would be more inclined to say sulfur tuft. but as bob says, need to the the underneath.
  • MrsGardenMrsGarden Posts: 3,951
    Hope these help.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    There's no sign of a veil connecting the cap to the stipe so I think it's not likely to be Sulphur Tuft.   

    There's no ring on the stem either, so it could be Armillaria tabescens ... the Ringless Honey Fungus ... https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/armillaria-tabescens.php

    rather than the more usual Armillaria mellea which is the one usually identified as Honey Fungus.

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • treehugger80treehugger80 Posts: 1,923
    it doesn't have the 'skirt' that's associated with honey fungus and it looks too light in colour as well, so i don't think its the honey fungus we all worry about
  • MrsGardenMrsGarden Posts: 3,951
    Phew, thank you talented people.
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