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They grow at explosive speed too and rot away fast. They aided in the death of a oak tree in my front yard. The only positive to come of it is I have been able to observe the growth rate of these little suckers several times a year. Are the stems hollow on these fresh ones? 

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I can't speak only for my own region, but those do not look like ringless honeys to me. The mushrooms are too small on maturity, stocks are too long and narrow, central umbo,  and the stocks should be pithy inside. These look more like a marasmius species than a honey mushroom to me.

19 hours ago, svs said:

White spore print confirms ringless honey musroom

Not necessarily.

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In my area, long narrow stalks are typical for A. tabescens (when it occurs, which seems to be only once every few years or so). The pithy stuffing inside the stalks sometimes partially disintegrates, or is consumed by insects. 

Just saw on Mushroom Observer  https://mushroomobserver.org/329193?q=UPSw.  Desarmillaria tabescens = Armillaria tabescens... at least this is true in NA. 

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In my area of Virginia ,A.Tabescens are more common than A.mellea with that ratio being about 60/40 or greater. 

The ones above are fairly representative of what I find when they first flush and anything with caps larger than 2" or so has usually been destroyed by bugs. 

They seem to be larger in the fall than in the summer I have noticed (cluster and cap size). Maybe those of us further south just don't get the extra growth time before the maggots and heat strike. I have seen them go from Flush to a Goo pile in as little as 3 days. 

 

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Very interesting. Our Tabescens up North usually are about 5-6 inches in cap size and a stalk about 1/2 inch to 3/4 inch wide in maturity. I have never seen, or perhaps didn't know, that they can be much smaller than that upon maturity. I mostly pick them as buttons and they are a bit bigger than that..

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Wow! Thats definitely a huge difference. What's the typical length of growth cycle before they deteriorate? Our day time highs are running in the low/mid 90s much of the time so nothing lives long here. 83 today and we think it feels like fall ...haha.

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Here i have only seen anything the ringless variety of honeys.  Size is all over the place.  Some batches 1in caps and the batch across  the yard may have tops 5in in diameter.

Note: when buying a house with "established" trees, make sure they are not so old that they are dying.  Loved the shade when we purchased and now the cost and effect of tree removal is showing me that I was foolhardy.

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6 hours ago, MattVa said:

Wow! Thats definitely a huge difference. What's the typical length of growth cycle before they deteriorate? Our day time highs are running in the low/mid 90s much of the time so nothing lives long here. 83 today and we think it feels like fall ...haha.

Same. You got about 2-3 days to get them even in the low 60's.

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