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Armillaria cepistipes is a honey mushroom and a weak root pathogen and wood-rotter. It usually develops at the base of broadleaved trees already stressed by other agents and produces abundant black rhizomorphs. Like other honey mushrooms, it has a white spore print and a ring, but species-level field identification is unreliable and is usually confirmed by mating tests or DNA.
Honey mushrooms as a group are eaten only after thorough cooking, and they commonly cause stomach upset in some people. No species-specific edibility data were found. Always take a spore print: honey mushrooms are white, while the deadly Galerina marginata, which grows on wood and has a ring, has a rusty-brown print.
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