norfolk dumplin wrote:
Ihave a bad dose of honey fungus all around an old tree stump so far
nothing seems to kill it the toadstools are in a large solid mass,
would burning them control the spread?, we are really running out of
ideas,the stump is about four foot high and three foot circumference,
we have been using it as a bird table since it was cut down two years
ago it was a twenty foot plus tree, hope someone can come up with a
solution, apart from hiring a tree specialist to remove it thanks.

Honey fungus spreads by underground rhizomorphs (bootlaces). It finds a
tree, enters via the collar at gound/soil juction, kills the tree then uses
the dead wood as a sugar (food) source while it forages on via more
bootlaces. Or it finds a lump of dead tree and uses it in the same way.

Spotted your error yet?

To avoid a potential honey fungus problem in an area where it is endemic,
the best advice is to grub up tree stumps with as much root as possible.

pk