🇬🇧 honey fungus - 🇩🇪 Honiggelber Hallimasch - 🇪🇪 Mesi-külmaseen - 🇷🇺 Опёнок осенний 9/8/10—9/6/25
🆔 Armillaria mellea (Vahl) P.Kumm.
ℹ️ Hymenium: Gills, white when young, yellow-to-cream tinged with age, spacing moderate to somewhat distant
ℹ️ Cap: Convex when young, flattening with age, honey-yellow to red-brown, often darker toward the center, surface smooth or slightly scaly-toward center, sticky when wet, margin may become striate or wavy
ℹ️ Hymenium Attachment: Adnate to subdecurrent
ℹ️ Stipe: Cylindrical, robust, tapering at base, upper portion paler, whitish, lower portion yellow-brown to reddish, has a prominent ring, base with dark black rhizomorphs and connected clumps
⚪ Spore print white
🌲🌳🪵 Parasitic (causes root rot) and saprotrophic on dead wood, found at the base of living or dead trees, on stumps, especially hardwoods, in dense clusters
🍴 Edible and choice, young specimens preferred, ring and caps more palatable
📏 Fruit body medium to large clusters, stipe 5–17 cm long, 0.5–3 cm thick
📐 Cap: ~5–15 cm diameter
🧪 No widely documented dramatic color chemical reactions
👃 Sweetish, slightly fungal, pleasant
👅 Slightly nutty
🔬 Spores ellipsoid, smooth, with a prominent apiculus, 6–9 × 4–6 µm; hyaline in KOH; basidia 2- and 4-sterigmate; cheilocystidia present (25–40 × 2.5–10 µm), thin-walled, pleurocystidia absent
🔤 Honey-coloured clustered mushroom that grows parasitically and saprotrophically on woody bases of trees
🇬🇧 honey fungus - 🇩🇪 Honiggelber Hallimasch - 🇪🇪 Mesi-külmaseen - 🇷🇺 Опёнок осенний