Honey Mushroom - Armillaria mellea

Tradd finds a honey mushroom patch, a problematic mushrooms that attacks living and dead trees, and it is very parasitic.

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Education

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• Tradd Cotter
• Mushroom mountain
• honey mushroom
• armillaria mellea
• mushrooms

[sporeprints]

DGRS - All the facts are straight and presented in the video if you listen to it. The mushroom is quote "very invasive" and quote "extremely pathogenic". I am not sure what exactly you are referring to as ridiculous. I am glad you are thoroughly enjoying our channel and taking it so seriously. TC

[RedFree100]

Thanks I just placed an order.

[sporeprints]

@RedFree100 Cool, I will ship it tommorow :)

[RedFree100]

Chicken of the woods, I have picked those before they are good, but the name was a little different. Hen of the woods. I think they should be out soon in PA. I will take your advice. Thanks

[sporeprints]

@RedFree100 Hen of the woods (maitake) is different from chicken of the woods (laetiporus sulfureus), both really, really delicious.

[RedFree100]

I have never seen them kill a tree. But I am not a expert. I just know I love picking and eating them. Maybe picking more so. I am going to try to grow them. I don't know if that possible I bought a video on growing mushrooms. It seems like it might be possible.

[sporeprints]

@RedFree100 They are definitely parasitic, they will grow on what seem to be healthy trees, whose immune system has been compromised, and they will eventually kill the tree. Don't grow them, they are very plentiful in the fall. I would suggest you grow chicken of the woods, or shiitakes. Not too hard to grow, visit our website, you will find some great videos that show how to cultivate mushrooms on logs. Good luck, and let us know how it turns out.

[jazlabaw]

we had a 30-40 year old blue spruce that took 2 years to die. We were told it died because of a drought we had last year and somewhat the year before. The tree was cut down this summer but this fall i notice several clusters of this mushroom on the decaying exposed roots. Do you think it is more likely that it died because of this mushroom? And if we plant another conifer to replace it will too be doomed? thanks

[dgrs2]

One of the most tasty mushrooms around. You're obviously a tree hugger. I live in an area that I have been picking popinki, or honey mushroom as it's better known, for about ohhhh 40 years now and by some miracle all the trees are still in the forest! How does that happen? I thought these very invasive mushrooms killed all the tree's? Get your facts straight before you post such a ridiculous video.