An ID please

[swindy]

I have a clump of Mushrooms growing in my garded in Surrey and would like to know what they are


I just went out to look again and they have started to rot and are covered in small maggots!

[flaxton]

It's a Mycena possibly galopus.
Oh you didn't mean the little one just the big clump of Honey Fungus.

Mal

[Geoff23]

Originally Posted by swindy

I have a clump of Mushrooms growing in my garded in Surrey and would like to know what they are


I just went out to look again and they have started to rot and are covered in small maggots!

Guess somebody has to break the bad news to you: this is the last mushroom on Earth that you want to find in your garden. At least this is so if you are fond of anything else in your garden. It spreads underground via "bootlaces" and will kill anything else in your garden that takes it's fancy, which is about half the trees and shrubs.

You can eat them, but not when they have started to rot and are covered in small maggots.

[Chris Yeates]

Originally Posted by Geoff23

Guess somebody has to break the bad news to you: this is the last mushroom on Earth that you want to find in your garden. At least this is so if you are fond of anything else in your garden. It spreads underground via "bootlaces" and will kill anything else in your garden that takes it's fancy, which is about half the trees and shrubs.

You can eat them, but not when they have started to rot and are covered in small maggots.

let's not alarm people too much - as has been stated on this site several times before "honey fungus" is a complex of several closely related species in the genus Armillaria (and possibly of races within those species); not all cause problems - every so often they pop up on the lawn here in Huddersfield (none so far this year, which is a bit surprising) there has never been evidence that they are behaving parasitically here (but then this is God's Own County )

Chris

Perhaps "the last mushroom on Earth that you want to find in your garden" would be Termitomyces because that would mean you had a termite colony in your garden and your joists and floor-boards would be at risk!

[swindy]

Originally Posted by Geoff23

Guess somebody has to break the bad news to you: this is the last mushroom on Earth that you want to find in your garden. At least this is so if you are fond of anything else in your garden. It spreads underground via "bootlaces" and will kill anything else in your garden that takes it's fancy, which is about half the trees and shrubs.

You can eat them, but not when they have started to rot and are covered in small maggots.

Just informed the wife of the imminent destruction of her beloved garden. Thanks for the tip about not eating things when they are covered maggots.

[BROCSMAN]

Hi Swindy

A belated welcome to WAB. Sometimes it's not the most welcoming of places, but please don't give up visiting. It's a great place to learn, and to have a laugh.