Honey Mushrooms (Armillaria tabescens) by cherokee69
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Took this a couple weeks ago. There were 3 hugh groups of these growing where I had cut down a dead corkscrew willow. When the mushrooms died, all the grass that were around them died also.
In the good-old days, not so long ago, there were two North American "Honey Mushrooms": Armillaria mellea and Armillaria tabsescens--and the genus Armillaria held many mushrooms, including the enormously popular and scrumptiously edible Matsutake mushroom, Armillaria ponderosa.
This state of affairs was too easy for mycologists, however. Someone had to go and point out that Armillaria contained many mushrooms that differed widely in their physical features. More importantly, mycologists pointed out that the mushrooms in question differed in their fundamental ecological roles. Most of the Honey Mushrooms, for example, were parasitic wood rotters (often pathogenic and killing the tree)."
by Michael Kuo...MushroomExpert.com
Thanks for all your wonderful comments
on my last upload,
"Spot Cleaning"
Many thanks,
Cherokee
Comments (7)
Mondwin
I am not a mushroom expert,but I like it very much!!!!!!!!!!fabulousssssssssss shot!!!!!bravo!!!vote!!!:DDD
jcv2
Beautiful shot with this green grass!
Enmos
Beautiful shot and great story, wonder why the grass died... Excellent work !!!
dirk5027
cook pic, great shot
Apophis906
Very cool shrooms here,excellent capture and job.
lgrant
Very cool mushrooms and an excellent image. I love the mushroom reference citations, too. Mushrooms are quite fascenating, yet I don't know much about them.
dadamson
THey look yummy, like they have already been fried in butter!! Excellent shot!