Honey fungus

Armillaria mellea

Русское название: Опёнок осенний

Honey fungus can be a serious root pathogen for trees. The Armillaria complex is taxonomically challenging; other small brown mushrooms on wood include deadly species. Avoid identifying a meal from a picture.

✳ Scientific names are used to reduce confusion between local names.

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Safety information

Never decide to eat a wild mushroom from a photograph or online description. A mistake can be fatal. For mushroom ingestion or suspected poisoning, contact emergency medical services or a poison centre immediately, even if symptoms have not appeared.

Irish Poisons Centre mushroom safety ↗

◎Distribution

Temperate regions including Europe

♧Habitat

Living roots, stumps and wood, sometimes parasitic

✺Identification limits

Images and brief descriptions are for learning, not for reliably identifying a specimen. Take particular care with poisonous plants and mushrooms.

Further reading and image creditsArmillaria mellea — Wikipedia overview ↗Photo, author and license — Wikimedia Commons ↗

Identification is never guaranteed by a photo. Scientific names are used to reduce confusion between local names.

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