Laetiporous sulphurous

[AxeKnot]

<u>Laetiporous sulphurous</u>

Type of rot - Brown rot(attacks cellulose) especially in heartwood on living trees

Location on trees - Stem, stem base, large branches, pruning wounds

Arboricultural significance - brittle fracture, stem failure

Hosts - Oak, Robinia, broadleaf trees with coloured heartwood, rare on conifers

Anyone have any experience of this fungi?

 

[KyLimbwalker]

Is this "chicken-of-the-woods"?

 

[AxeKnot]

Yes, this is a common name I have heard for this fungi.

 

[KyLimbwalker]

I ate this once. We cooked it for a few hours. It did actually have kinda the texture of chicken. Like tofurky is to turkey.

 

[KentuckySawyer]

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I ate this once. We cooked it for a few hours. It did actually have kinda the texture of chicken. Like tofurky is to turkey.

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It was terrible and you know it. Rubbery. Like eating a giant wad of foam. I think it was just past its prime though.

 

[RogerM]

 

[KyLimbwalker]

No- I ate some once prepared by Jason Rutledge over in Virginia. Jason , Gary and I sat up and talked about hippie crap and ate mushrooms. The legal ones. Ithink.

 

[KentuckySawyer]

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No- I ate some once prepared by Jason Rutledge over in Virginia. Jason , Gary and I sat up and talked about hippie crap and ate mushrooms. The legal ones. Ithink.

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So you're saying it was operator error?

 

[jeff_r]

I work with a overmature population of boulevard trees ; Laetiporous sulphurous on most of the old knuckle crotches of Prunus. If you see the conk, the tree is in trouble.