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Hot summer and damp autumn cause UK boom in destructive honey fungus (www.theguardian.com)

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A golden mushroom that grows in clusters and can attack and kill trees has increased by 200% in the UK in a year because of the hot summer and damp autumn.

Recorded sightings of honey fungus are up by almost 200% compared with the same period last year, according to iNaturalist.

Armillaria, or honey fungus, is not a single species but a group of closely related ones. “As their name suggests, they are a honey-brown colour, often with greenish tinges when young,” said David Gibbs, a field mycologist. “Large clumps often develop a frosty appearance and become dusted by their white spores.”

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