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Chicken of the woods

Bright yellow-orange fleshy shelves on oak and willow. Edible when young, with a chicken-like taste.

Laetiporus sulphureus

Chicken of the woods
Photo: Rror, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
edible

A wood-decay fungus that breaks down wood – found on stumps, trunks and branches in the forests of Czechia and Slovakia.

Edibility: Edible when correctly identified and cooked. Never eat mushrooms you have not identified with certainty.