Bulbous Honey Fungus - Armillaria gallica
The caps are ochre-yellow or tawny brown, scattered with fine yellow scales with darker tips. The stipe has a bulbous base. There is a short-lived white cobwebby ring at the top of the stipe, reminiscent of a Cortinarius species.
other Armillaria species: Dark Honey fungus Armillaria ostoyae and Honey fungus Armillaria mellea. (In the past it has been considered to be a variety of A mellea, but is now treated as separate species)
Photograph from top down, in side view and from underneath to show gills and full length of stipe. Note habitat and substrate.
On woodland litter, dead stumps and buried rotting wood of broad leaf trees.
June to November.
Widespread but never particularly common in Britain.
Occasional in Leicestershire and Rutland.
David Nicholls
Swithland Wood
11 November 2012
David Nicholls
Swithland Wood
11 November 2012
Melinda Bell
Shepshed,Piper Wood
24 October 2023
Melinda Bell
Shepshed,Piper Wood
24 October 2023
Craig Mabbett
clump hill fields broughton astley
15 November 2014
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Species profile
- Common names
- Bulbous Honey Fungus
- Species group:
- fungus
- Kingdom:
- Fungi
- Order:
- Agaricales
- Family:
- Physalacriaceae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 5
- First record:
- 11/11/2012 (Nicholls, David)
- Last record:
- 05/10/2025 (Wright, David)
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