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South Yorkshire, United Kingdom

How do you treat these mushrooms. They are in hard solid clumps and pushing up through the lining of a pebble covered area. They appear to be on the line of old Sycamore tree root. Tree felled 8 years with stump treated.




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Mushrooms don't need to be treated. If you don't want them, put on a pair of gloves, cut them off with a sharp knife and into the trash. They most likely are from the old decaying sycamore tree roots. Mushrooms aren't harmful, they indicate a living healthy soil which is ideal. Don't eat them. They only last a couple days, really not worth a bother.

10 Oct, 2020

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Seo
 

Thanks. These are not edible. They are in rock hard clumps and smell very unpleasant

10 Oct, 2020

 

Try to shovel some dirt over them to mask the smell. Mushrooms are actually flowers of the underground fungus which is decomposing the tree roots. When you cut them, more will come up.

10 Oct, 2020

 

they will keep appearing until all the roots have rotted out. They are releasing nutrients back into the soil. I'd just pop them in the bin (Not your own garden compost bin [if you have one]. They are the fruiting bodies similar to fruits and pods of flowering plants and will release millions of spores which are the fungal equivalent of seeds).

what do they smell like? That is a way of identifying them. The cluster at the base of the 'dead' shrub could be reduced by removing the shrub. Less material for it to feed on. What is the shrub? The fungus does look a bit like one of the Honey Fungus group.

10 Oct, 2020

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Seo
 

Thank you very helpful.

10 Oct, 2020

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Might they be Honey fungus?

10 Nov, 2020

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