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Sulphur Shelf

Sulphur Shelf Mushroom

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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.
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Pores on Hymenium
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Stipe/NA
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Edibility: Edible
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Cap is flat
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Spore print is white
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Hymenium/NA
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Ecology is saprotrophic 


or parasitic
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