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

Check out this impressively chonky cluster of #HoneyMushrooms or #Armillaria, most likely part of the #Armillariamellea species complex. These Honey mushrooms have a thick stem with a ring (annulus) and white spores They are strongly parasitic mushrooms that use weaponized mycelium (Rhizomorphs) to creep between the bark of wood of a tree, cutting off the flow of the xylem and floem, effectively girdling and killing the tree. After killing the tree, they use white rot wood decay enzymes to break