Armillaire color of honey

The armillaire color of honey ( Amillaria mellea ) is a Champignon Basidiomycète of the family of the Tricholomatacée S.

Description

Hat 5 to 10-15 cm, spherical and closed by white a veil, then spread out, yellow clearly or mustard with brown reddish or olivâtre, strewn with more sunk wicks, especially in the center.
unequal, white Blades then yellowish and sometimes stained the brown one. Sporée white.
Foot 10 to 20 cm, slim but robust, clearly and striated with the top with a white ring , color of the hat and moucheté of white in lower part.
white Flesh , becoming coriace in the foot. Savor a little bitter, light odor of soap.

Attention! It acts of a espèce polymorphe extrèmement, in the face, form and color. There exists even a close species ( Armillaria tabescens ) without ring.

Habitat

It is a mushroom very common to the autumn in Europe, which comes in large tufts on the roots, the stocks, even the trunks, of Feuillus like Conifère S. Redoutable parasitizes, it causes a " Pourridié " wood.

Edibility

The armillaire color of honey is edible honourable. As it remains a long time places from there before rotting, one will take care to limit oneself to the youngest specimens.

Close species

The beginners will be able to confuse the armillaire color of honey with other lignicolous mushrooms pushing in tufts, in particular Pholiote S or Hypholome S (attention with the latter), but the only close species are other Armillaire S.

External bonds

Armillaria mellea, young people
Armillaria mellea, adult
Armillaria tabescens

Sources

It is about a mushroom described in all the works; one will be able to quote in particular:

the Mushrooms , Roger Philips, Editions Solar 1981, ISBN 2-263-00640-0
Mushrooms of North and the South , Andre Marchand, volume I/IX, Hatchet 1971, ISBN 84-499-0649-0
See also the bibliography of SMF: Armillaria mellea

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