Laetiporus sulphureus (Bull.:Fr.) Murrill |
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.
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 . | ||
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