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Honey mushroom

Armillaria mellea

Description:

Large group of golden mushrooms with yellow gills extending down the yellow stipe and a persistent skirt around the stipe.

Habitat:

Growing at the base of a dead tree in a deep damp gully.

Notes:

This specimen believed to be the same species but with white gills and stem was found about 20m away growing in soil. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/115...

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4 Comments

MayraSpringmann
MayraSpringmann 11 years ago

Beautiful!! Perfect for yellow colour mission...

patty
patty 11 years ago

Nice series! =)

MartinL
MartinL 11 years ago

There's a lot of dead trees in this (Quinn) Reserve and a very lot of mycological recycling occuring in this deep gully. It's worth a look Argybee.

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 11 years ago

I wonder if that's what killed the tree. Good cluster.

MartinL
Spotted by
MartinL

3796, Victoria, Australia

Spotted on May 30, 2012
Submitted on Jun 1, 2012

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