HONEY FUNGUS
Honey Fungus is parasitic and can effect stumps and trunks or dead or damaged plants. It grows in the form of black root structures known as rhizmorphs or bootacles and can also grow in soil, compost heaps and under mulches. Not all forms cause disease in your garden and one way to tell if you have honey fungus is to remove the outer bark from the effected trunk at ground level, if a sheet of creamy white fungal growth is seen that has a strong smell of mushrooms then it's a pretty sure sign of it's presence. Honey fungus is naturally found in woody areas and is natures way of reducing dead trees.
Where honey fungus is found it is recommenced to remove all dead or dying woody plants, stumps and root systems. Where root systems are close together the honey fungus can spread and kill other trees or plants around it as the rhizmorphs spread below the ground. If we are aware of the presence of honey fungus we can take the resulting wood chips away and arrange to have them burned. The Chipping's cannot be used as mulch.