Honey Fungus
(Honeytuft Fungus or Bootlace Fungus)
Description
Cap convex, then irregularly plane, Ø 4-15 cm, matt, dark scales particularly at the centre, honey-yellow or yellow-brown to olive-yellow or olive-brown, with white margin.
Gills whitish, staining red-brown.
Stem 6-16 cm x 5-15 mm, whitish to flesh, with thick, membranous, white ring with a yellow marginal zone on the lower surface, base tapering or swollen, often with rhizomorphs. Flesh white to flesh. Smell musty.
Suspect.
Occurrence
Common on roots and stumps and at the base of the trumk of mainly deciduous trees on rich soil. In tufts (37A.jpg: 37B.jpg, rhizomorphs)
Parasitic.
Related and/or similar species
- Armillaria lutea
- Armillaria ostoyae