Sulphur Shelf

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Fungi
Agaricomycetes
Polyporaceae
Laetiporus
L. sulphureus
Polyporales

Description

The Sulphur Shelf, Sulphur Polypore or Chicken of the woods has a very irregular shape. The cap is small and knob-shaped. The Sulphur Shelf mushroom gets its name from it's colour, which is sulphur yellow to bright orange, and grows out in shelves that can be from 5 to 60 centimeters in diameter and 4 centimeters thick. This mushroom grows in clusters on hardwoods and under conifers from August to October.

Pores on Hymenium

Stipe/NA

Edibility: Edible

Cap is flat

Spore print is white

Hymenium/NA

Ecology is saprotrophic 


or parasitic

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