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Honey Mushroom
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Honey Mushroom 

(Armillaria mellea), a hymenomycetous mushroom of the family Tricholomataceae. The top of the cap is grayish yellow with dark scales; the underside has white gills. Young mushrooms have a white membranous cover on the cap’s underside. As the mushroom matures, the cover opens and remains in the form of a ring on the long, straight stem. Honey mushrooms grow in clusters on tree stumps, fallen trees, and roots. They also live as parasites on the base of living trees. Decayed wood containing the mycelia of honey mushrooms glows in the dark. The mushrooms are edible.



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The other possible cause is honey fungus that all poplars are prone to and again you would see a gradual slowing down of the growth rate over a number of years and eventually, the tree would die.
Color photos of cream of giant puffball soup, spaghetti with black truffle sauce, and honey fungus tart will turn mushroom haters into mushroom hunters.
The bigger danger is from the honey fungus rotting the trunk and bark.
 
 
 
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