Chicken of the Woods Mushroom, Laetiporus.

The chicken of the woods, also known as the sulfur shelf or Laetiporus , is a beautiful and easily identifiable shelf like mushroom that grows all around the world and is highly regarded for its culinary value. It gets its common name because it is said to taste a lot like chicken when cooked. This polypore mushroom thrives by growing on wood, and is known as parasitic. It can attack live trees or take advantage of dead wood to eat the nutrients within the wood before producing large orange fruiting bodies and spreading its spores across the forest. It can grow on hardwood, this species is known as L. Sulphureus, or on conifers here in the northwest, known as L. Conifiricola. This video shows how to identify it, find it, and harvest it. Please subscribe to mushroom wonderland to learn all about how to forage and harvest wild mushrooms such as porcini, matsutake, oyster, chanterelle, lobster mushroom, agaricus, cortinarius, shittake, as well as all kinds of other wild mushrooms. Just by hitting the subscribe button you help to motivate me to continue to make all kinds of cool mushroom related content about the Pacific Northwest of the USA, although this mushroom genus is widespread around the world. Some people experience gastric upset from this mushroom, as is the case with many wild mushrooms, so cooking well is always suggested. Good luck on your hunt, and thank you for subscribing to Mushroom Wonderland!!