Honey fungus or not?

Hi is this honey fungus ?

 

I don't think it is, but not positive as they are past their best.
The black boot laces are the best clue.
My pics below showing detail.

 

I don't think it is either. Many fungi live on the roots of trees and are beneficial as they pass nutrients to it.

Worth a read: Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard, all about how she discovered the Wood Wide Web!

 

They talk of black bootlaces when referring to honey fungus.

Never seen it myself but it look ominous.

Edit.
OK just noticed that silver surfer has put up loads of pictures of Honey fungus and they are probably the ones I'm looking at.

 

Thanks all.
I see nothing like the bootlaces in silver surfer’s pics, so I don’t think it’s honey fungus.
Good.

 

pick one and take a photo of:
the full stem, the ring if it has one, the gills and the area where the gills join the cap. then ideally a spore print, leave the mushroom ontop of something black with a bowl over it for a day and you can see the print.

with all these things you can ID mushrooms much more accurately

 

In my opinion spore prints are even harder to interpret that looking at the actual fungus/ mushroom/toadstool.Needs an expert for that.

Maybe link below will help.
It points out the id features that can be seen in my pics above.

Honey fungus: identifying mushrooms / RHS

Spore print see link below.

Honey Fungus

Quote from link above....
"Spore Print
Even at 200 magnification (left), I couldn't make out the shape of individual spores but you get an impresson on the lower power images (right) of the quantities of spores that one cap can release overnight; it must run into millions."

 

Could this be honey fungus? There are crops of them round a silver birch tree that appears to have died this summer.

 

Sorry but I cannot see any detail in your pics.
Did you look at the stalk at all?
How does it compare to my images?

Quote RHS..
"Annulus – A ring of tissue around the stalk (stipe). The species of honey fungus that occur in gardens all have annuli close to where the cap begins, but these can be difficult to spot and may only be present as wispy veils of tissue."


Maybe link below will help.
It points out the id features that can be seen in my pics above./and copy below

Honey fungus: identifying mushrooms / RHS

 

I have had two trees taken out by Honey Fungus.
There is no actual cure but I seem to have stopped it now ,it has had several attempts to attack again but I dig it right out at the first sign with a garden trowel which I only use for this ,then get rid.
Keep watch.
So my advice to you a1154 is to dig out as much as you can immediately weather it is Honey Fungus or not.

 

Some hopefully better pictures. These seem to have very dark stalks, unlike @Silver surfer’s photos?
There are quite a few clumps in lines in the grass surrounding the dead tree, I suspect along the route of the surface roots.
I need to chase up our tree surgeons anyway, they will probably identify them straight away.

Weirdly, the pictures I took didn’t convey the colour of the fungi properly. I had to use the vivid warm setting to try and replicate the colour, as the original photos looked washed out. Now I’m wondering if it’s actually my early cataract making things looks yellower than they really are!

 

@Ergates as a former owner of cataracts, it noticeably yellows things. I only realised afterwards that my car was a cool white rather than creamy!

 

Worrying, @CarolineL! A friend bought a new and expensive ‘turquoise’ sofa, and then had her cataracts removed. Came home to a blue sofa that she didn’t like!

 

More seriously, I have great difficulty getting some colours of flowers to show up properly - for example the macro lens on my phone seems to show them differently to the main camera lens. Annoying when colour may be critical to identifying something

 

Same here, @CarolineL, I was trying to capture the colour of my favourite camellias, and they just didn’t look vivid enough. This was using my iPad, don’t have a camera any more. Took a lot of fiddling with the filters to adjust it to nearer what I was looking at ( or what my brain was seeing anyway)