Chicken of the woods

Venusflytrap, these were uploaded with the mobile app, likely an older iteration that allowed more photos.

HOW DID YOU UPLOAD 12 PHOTOS?????? YOU SHOULD ONLY BE ABLE TO UPLOAD 6!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reminds me of bubble gum!

As with any wild mushroom, if you cook it up, eat just a very small amount at first. Chicken of the woods can upset some stomachs. I've eaten some a friend gave me and it was interesting

IAlex, it's been a learning process for me too! I upload pics from the iPhone app. Maybe that is why I can upload 6?

it was pink, and the first 3 pics . i would still say its :L. c. , but at the 2 and 5pic can you see the leave behind the mushroom. first i could not think in to this coloration. ok you're right, but you had background information. --> wich i hadn't believe , if i hadn't seen it. i have till now only seen yellow sulphureus. therefore sorry, will take the suggestion back. We can learn every day, when we want ! (btw --> why can you upload 6 pic- i just 5 then i must delete one)

Close up of underside and whole-tree pics are from today, so a day older than the first uploaded pics.

It is the same spotting. New pics show it is yellow underneath (sulphureus). What a crap huh! Wish it was my tree :)

the new uploaded pictures looking more as a sulphureus, are they on the same tree ??? is it the same spotting . maybe the light had a big factor for this discusion!!

i know the sulphureus (http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/712...) have eaten him, i always look on google image , even before i maked the suggestion . take a look at all leatiporus species ( http://www.google.nl/search?um=1&hl=...) and be aware of what name, is to the picture. i have seen quite some sulphurus, but when i saw yours, i thought, what is that, and reseached. you must decide it yourself, i can only suggest (i make mistakes, but here i'm sure) , what i think. but i will stick to cincinnatus. even is it one of those two, when you are not sure about it , i would cook nothing up. --
laetiporus sp --> [ http://www.google.nl/search?um=1&hl=... ]
L. cincinnatus ---> [ http://www.google.nl/search?um=1&hl=... ]
L. sulphureus --> [ http://www.google.nl/search?um=1&hl=... ] ---
it should be relativ similair as a subspecies from each other
good luck

Okay photo 3 is of the chicken one day before the other two shots, of loosely the same area. Big difference in one day!

Actually apparently both are edible - cincinnatus is more tender :)

My guess is this is not cincinnatus. Cincinnatus, according to the reference above, appears only at the base of the tree or from roots. http://americanmushrooms.com/edibles4.ht... says cincinnatus "seems to grow exclusively from buried wood (roots); it almost invariably forms rosettes that are attached to a central stalklike structure, and its undersurface is nearly white, without the yellowish coloration typical of L. sulphureus"

Looking at Google images, there is quite a bit a variability in the appearance of true Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporus sulphureus), if not due to regional variation at least to varying stages of growth. This specimen was much more condensed and "globulous" looking the day before the pictures above. I expect it to become more "shelf-like," and more similar to many pictures you see, as it gets older.

I will have the homeowner look at the underside and let me know if it is white or yellow. If yellow, I am cooking some up this thing up!

How wonderful! I live in Indianapolis too.

http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/733... this is more what chicken of the woods should look like

but i agree with karen. L. sulphureus should be yellow. This beauty is a cincinnatus ---> "Recent DNA studies and mating analyses have separated several species of Laetiporus from the "true" chicken of the woods, Laetiporus sulphureus. One recently published eastern North American species is Laetiporus cincinnatus, which is apparently genetically different, and which cannot "mate" with Laetiporus sulphureus." [ http://www.mushroomexpert.com/laetiporus... ]

fantastic contrast. (blue - pink) love it

It doesn't look like the chicken of the woods we have here on the west coast

wow too beautiful

Impressive. Could it be: http://www.mushroomexpert.com/phlebia_in...

stunning

Strange and very pretty.