Spotted, growing on a tree about a block from my house: Laetipous, AKA Chicken of the Woods.
It’s not my tree, or I’d be tempted to harvest it and fix it for dinner.
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Perhaps a midnight caper? Move fast. They turn to wood pretty quickly.
Looks much tastier than a can of Chicken of the Sea. Which doesn’t taste much like chicken.
Not a good sign for the tree though. Chicken of the Woods only grows on dead or dying trees, not healthy ones.
MMMM! Did a mushroom baked lasagna once with those populating one layer.
PZ, the last thing you should be doing is climbing trees.
@ ^ larpar : Get one of his students to do it for a share in the mushrooms or have some one else help?
Ask the tree’s owner and let them know about this if you know them or perhaps even as a way of meeting them?
you can clearly see the damage is old enough that the tree is beginning to grow around it .looks like the heart is gone or soon will be, not very many years left It would be nice if someone could harvest some of the “mushrooms” before the tree is removed
I’ve been collecting and eating these for years. They don’t taste like chicken at all, at least not to me. I get a distinctly citrus under note.