Help with ID please!

[WOOF!]

[WOOF!]

I have a better photo of this years batch but cannot fathom how to post it.
Pm me please someone................Ta!

[diggleken]

Hi WOOF, if you look in the stickies that should help...............
I suspect your fungus is honey fungus growing in a lawn. Armilleria spp.
Cheers
Ken

[NickCantle]

I'd second Armillaria

[hamadryad]

as an arb i will third A. mellea, good old honey fungus, will be fruiting off an old root/stump, and dont panic unless you have lots of ornamental trees in the garden, these tend to be more susceptable to Armilarias, whereas native broadleafs tend to live with it as a saprobe of old tap roots and are often cavity formers of ash in particular.

much less agressive than is supposed, only going psycho on your tree stock when the trees are weak and or stressed, by drough for instance

[fairplay]

This may be true in the wild wood, but in the garden it is a totally different matter - Native trees or ornamental, they all are susceptible, some more so than others.

We lost 2 Holly, 2 Salix fragilis, 3 Betula and a Sycamore - all native broadleaves (except Sycamore) plus many more shrubs.
We first became aware of the problem 8 years ago but left it too late before we started digging out all the stumps and roots.

We also never took the very good advice of removing the 'healthy' trees next to the diseased trees - crossing your fingers does not work, nor does Armillotox !
It is now working it's way down a whole Rosemary hedge. Yes, we still have it. (the fungus)

Neil.

[WOOF!]

Thanks.

I have compared them to honey fungus pics online and they don't quite match. They are small and ball shaped with hairy spikes on when juvenile and grow over the course of a week or so and remain for a while after that. The "brolly" part almost always looks damaged too if that helps. Holes or rough egdes. They do however grow in large bunches near to trees. I this case a dead cherry blossom. I have kept the trunk as a bird feeding station.

[NickCantle]

I'm afraid that pictures alone are never a good way to compare fungi. They're extremely variable. This is definitely Armillaria in your lawn I'm afraid.

[WOOF!]

Originally Posted by NickCantle

I'm afraid that pictures alone are never a good way to compare fungi. They're extremely variable. This is definitely Armillaria in your lawn I'm afraid.

No, that's great!
I now have a name for the beggers!!

Thanks.

[NickCantle]

No problem!