Honey Fungus

[MightyMeerkat]

I have a viburnum eve price. It looks fab. But in the autumn I noticed that there was a huge amount of fungus around it. A quick google suggests that it could be affected by honey fungus as viburnum are vulnerable to it. Does anyone have experience of this? The RHS website says there is no treatment and the only solution is to remove the plant but I don't really want to do that given how good it looks. Also the shrub is in the same bed as a daphne and sedums. Could the honey fungus spread to them too? Thanks!

Are you sure it is honey fungus? - Do the "mushrooms" have a little frill around the stem, and are the gills white on younger specimens, perhaps a little darker on older caps?

The RHS have a list of likely host plants - Daphne is on the "less likely to be affected" list. Sedum I can't imagine would be affected.
www.rhs.org.uk/advice/pdfs/honey-fungus-host-list

The largest living organism in the world is an American honey fungus, a single "plant" covering 4sq miles of Oregon. I always console myself with the thought that it's in the top 10 of species found on forays by the British Mycological Association - if it was as deadly to healthy trees and shrubs as some people claim, we wouldn't have any woodlands left.

You can’t get rid of the HF, but if shrubs near it are healthy they’re less likely to be affected.
Don’t take any out unless they’re dead anyway!

Thank you both that's reassuring and yes I think it is definitely honey fungus. I will wait and see how it fairs over the next few months.