{"id":4031,"date":"2020-09-28T09:59:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-28T14:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/?p=4031"},"modified":"2020-09-28T10:05:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-28T15:05:59","slug":"chicken-of-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/09\/28\/chicken-of-the-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicken of the Woods"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One can easily spot the chicken of the woods mushroom by its  impressive size and vibrant yellow-orange colors. This large polypore  has surprised many a nature lover the first time they found it! Yet did  you know they&#8217;re also edible, and considered a delicacy in some parts of  the world?       <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.mushroom-appreciation.com\/image-files\/xlaetiporus-sulphureus.jpg.pagespeed.ic.yfKhyl5NUk.jpg\" alt=\"Laetiporus-sulphureus - The chicken of the woods mushroom\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\n<ins><\/ins>\nThis mushroom has a lemony, meaty taste. Some think it tastes \nlike its chicken namesake; others describe the flavor as being more like\n crab or lobster. Whatever your opinion, the chicken fungus makes a \ngreat substitute for meat in almost any dish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s important to note that this is one of those mushrooms  that sometimes causes gastric distress in certain people.  If you want  to avoid a possible stomach misadventure, only try a little bit your  first time to see what it does to you. Also always avoid chicken of the  woods growing on conifers, eucalyptus, or cedar trees, as these are  reported to contain toxins that can make people sick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>This mushroom is a polypore, meaning they disperse spores  through small pores (holes) on the underside of their caps. You can  learn more about poroid mushrooms in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mushroom-appreciation.com\/identify-mushrooms.html#pores\">this article<\/a>. <\/li><li>The different species of the chicken of the woods mushroom  are both saprotrophic (feeding on dead trees), and parasitic (attacking  and killing live trees by causing the wood to rot). Whatever their  method of feeding, you&#8217;ll always find them growing on or at the base of a  living or dead tree.<\/li><li>Chickens are easily recognized by their large clusters of  overlapping brackets, and bright yellow-orangish colors. The colors fade  as the mushroom grows older.<\/li><li>Many polypores are also medicinal mushrooms, although there hasn&#8217;t been much research done on this one. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/content\/p65r2660651u7k76\/\" target=\"_blank\">One study<\/a> has indicated that it inhibits bacterial growth. <\/li><li>Other names are chicken fungus, chicken mushroom, and sulphur shelf. The genus is <em>Laetiporus<\/em>.<\/li><li>There are about twelve species of chicken of the woods in the <em>Laetiporus<\/em> genus. This article focuses on <em>Laetiporus<\/em> <em>sulphureus<\/em>, the species that grows on hardwoods where I live in Eastern North America. You may also hear about these species: <\/li><li><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ol><li><em>Laetiporus cincinnatus<\/em> (right) &#8211; Also found in Eastern North America, although this species is often more reddish.<\/li><li><em>Laetiporus conifericola<\/em> &#8211; A yellowish species found in Western North America that often fruits on conifers.<\/li><li><em>Laetiporus gilbertsonii<\/em> &#8211; The West Coast version that&#8217;s found on oaks and eucalyptus trees. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>This<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mushroom-appreciation.com\/chicken-of-the-woods.html?fbclid=IwAR2kkdo9nrhp-KokLG2YMnSa422WP9Y8HgYx7pVV-QIyRixJCufWtph9qqk#sthash.qwAgcOkw.jeKKbhDb.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" link (opens in a new tab)\"> link<\/a> will take you to the article, some of which is presented here, and it is interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One can easily spot the chicken of the woods mushroom by its impressive size and vibrant yellow-orange colors. This large polypore has surprised many a nature lover the first time they found it! Yet did you know they&#8217;re also edible, and considered a delicacy in some parts of the world? This mushroom has a lemony, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4031"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4034,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4031\/revisions\/4034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}