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Spotted these 2 mushrooms in different parts of a garden...is it Honey Fungus!!
Paul Anderson
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I don't think so because I can't see that distinctive little frill around the stem. We are riddled with honey fungus here; it grows in big clumps, very orange, and with that frill. I think this is something else....breathe easier!
Rosie
It has orange at the top on one of the mushrooms? The mulch which is on top of the border is a bit white in parts where I saw the mushroom and when I peeled back the membrane its growing underneath.....
Ok thanks for getting back to me Rosie
Not honey fungus. I've never see a single honey fungus fruiting body. They come in clusters later in the year and they don't look like that.
Fungi are everywhere, part of life
In the sticks near Peterborough
I was told once that the reason honey fungus is more of a problem in gardens than in natural woodland, is that because in woodland it is competed out by other species of fungi. So I've started to feel happy when I see other fungus in my garden - I think of it as an ally in crowding out the honey fungus!
So....feel kindly towards these ones, they might be doing you a favour...
Rosie (honey fungus victim and veteran...)
I looked for this earlier but couldn't find it
Honey fungus
My own crop
In the sticks near Peterborough