Laetiporus sulphureus    (Bull.:Fr.) Murrill 

common name(s) : Chicken of the Woods, Sulphur Polypore 

New classification: Basidiomycota/Agaricomycotina/Agaricomycetes/Incertae sedis/Polyporales/Fomitopsidaceae  
Former classification: Basidiomycota/Homobasidiomycetes/Aphyllophoromycetideae/Polyporales/Bjerkanderaceae  

synonyms: Polyporus sulphureus 
(unconfirmed synonyms: Polyporus sulfureus, Laetiporus sulfureus, Grifola sulphurea, Ceriomyces aurantiacus)  

edibility : edible

photo gallery of  Laetiporus sulphureus
photo gallery of  Laetiporus sulphureus potential confusions with  Laetiporus sulphureus toxicity of Laetiporus sulphureus genus Laetiporus  

The cap is lemon yellow then paler when getting old or drying, convex, fleshy. The cap margin is thick.

The flesh is yellowish, fibrous, soft when young then brittle when ageing or dry; its taste is mild; the odour is pleasant, mushroomy;

The tubes are thin (1 to 3 per mm), round.

The pores are thin; concolorous. The spore print is white.

It grows in edges of woods or clearings, on isolated trees, often high above ground, on oak, willow, poplar, fruit-trees, more rarely on chestnut, ash, beech (annual).

The fruiting period takes place from April to November.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 37 cm (between 10 and 100 cm)
  height of stem approximately 0.6 cm (between 0 and 1 cm)
  thickness of stem (at largest section) approximately 0.5 mm (between 0 and 1 mm)
  spores : 5-6,5 x 3,5-4,5 microns, ellipsoid

Distinctive features : egg-yellow coloured fan-shaped or console-shaped fruiting body; soft flesh (later whitish and brittle); sweet odour; high above grounds on the trees it parasites

Laetiporus sulphureus is infrequent and widely present in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Laetiporus sulphureus in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Laetiporus sulphureus in the forest of Rambouillet



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