Hot summer and damp autumn cause UK boom in destructive honey fungus

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A golden mushroom that grows in clusters and can attack and kill trees has increased by 200% in the UK in a year because of the hot summer and damp autumn.

Recorded sightings of honey fungus are up by almost 200% compared with the same period last year, according to iNaturalist.