Honey Mushroom! 🍯🐝 or Armalleria Mellea :) This fungus is fascinating and rightfully deserves a place in the Guinness Book of World Records don’t you think? Not my favorite edible but I find them to be so fun! #mushroom #fungi #forager #honeyfungus | Melissa Ketelsen

Following my crunchy ASMR honey video, here’s a longer one with explanations about #HoneyMushrooms or #Armillaria. These mushrooms are aggressive plant pathogens that use weaponized mycelium known as rhizomorphs to spread through soil and attack trees by creeping up between the bark and living tissue, cutting off the flow of water/nutrients and effectively killing the tree by girdling it. They are white rot saprotrophic decayers that then eat the wood, prodigiously producing epic clusters of mus