honey fungus

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honey fungus

noun honey fungi

  1. A parasitic mushroom of the genus Armillaria that lives on trees and shrubs. The common edible Mushroom or Honey-fungus (Agaricus melleus) is also a very common, and in many places a very dangerous, parasite in young crops of conifers, which, however, also occurs extensively as a saprophyte on dead stools and roots of old trees, especially of Beeches.

    Similar: honey mushroom, bootlace fungus, shoestring mushroom

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noun mushroom of the genus Armillaria

日本語楢茸 naratake
Portuguêsarmilária
DeutschHallimasch
Italianochiodino
Românăghebe
Русскийопёнок opjónok

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@misc{honey_fungus_2026,
  title = {honey fungus},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/honey%20fungus},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}