Fizpok Posted September 7 Report Share Posted September 7 I found honeys, and next to them - a single, large one. And I was 99% sure, but the cap was greenish. Which is, probably, possible, but... doesn't look like color of honey. So here is a question: how do I distinguish it from amanita? Scales on a cup? Check. Low part of a stem forms spherical... I don't know, it widens. Check: looks like small vulva. Ring: check. White gills/spores: check. I thought that I can use the fact that honeys have rather tough stem, but some amanitas do, too: Tricholoma murrillianum, it even looks similar. So, is there a universal way to distinguish them? I know that honeys form clusters, but that separate one was growing 15 cm from the cluster... which is possible - there were honeys everywhere around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JOHNY Posted September 8 Report Share Posted September 8 One thing about mushrooms is that universally there is no universal rule for identifying them. For the species you are concerned about, habitat and cap anatomy are among two of the easiest ways. Honeys tend to grow from dead wood stumps or logs Amanitas tend to grow from ground The caps of honey have fine hairs often near center cap, Amanitias, if the have spots, tend to have large irregular warty spots that can be rubbed or washed off Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Hoover Posted September 9 Report Share Posted September 9 The other thing you need to watch for is that deadly galerina can grow among the honeys. Check each mushroom individually before cooking. it’s personal preference, but I let the honeys go, hoping to get aborted Entolomas (shrimp of the woods) instead. Much better eating and a breeze to identify. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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