honey fungus

Wikispecies honey fungus (plural honey fungi)

1. A parasitic mushroom of the genus Armillaria that lives on trees and shrubs.
   • 1893, Hermann Heinrich von Fürst, The Protection of Woodlands Against Dangers Arising from Organic and Inorganic Causes‎, page 75:

     The common edible Mushroom or Honey-fungus (Agaricus melleus) is also a very common, and in many places a very dangerous, parasite in young crops of conifers, which, however, also occurs extensively as a saprophyte on dead stools and roots of old trees, especially of Beeches.

   • 2000, Science and Cultivation of Edible Fungi‎, volume 2, page 545:

     Zhu ling grows on honey fungi (Armelliaria mellea) rhizomorph for nutrients, leading to a unique cultivation process (Huang 1993, Yao & Huang 1993).

   • 2012, Ruth Binney, The Gardener's Wise Words and Country Ways‎, page 160:

     Honey fungus (Armillaria mellea) is most obvious when, in autumn, clumps of honey-coloured, pale-stemmed toadstools appear at the base of a tree.

• honey mushroom, bootlace fungus, shoestring mushroom

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