Laetiporus sulphureus appears on deciduous and coniferous trees in with Oak, Willow, Apple and Yew being some of its favourites. It is very common, with its brackets appearing every year in late Spring to Early Summer. It obtained its common name from the fact that its flesh has the constituency of cooked chicken flesh and when young is very good to eat (don't attempt to eat them when they are older, are becoming crumbly and beginning to whiten). In Germany it is considered a delicacy. The flesh is cream, egg yellow in colour and although it can grow into strange lumpy shapes, it usually grows in tiered clusters as a fan shaped bracket. A yellowish juice should exude when the flesh is squeezed.

Click on the image for a close up of part of the bracket.

Fruiting body starting to appear on a Yew tree in May.

This photograph was taken in May at a local plant nursery. The fungi is growing on a Yew tree and has grown through the plastic netting.

This photograph was taken at a London hotel site in May, the fungi is busy feeding on a large trunk wound made when a major branch broke away in a storm and took a section of the trunk with it! The tree is an Oak and is located well away from public areas so will hopefully be left to decay in peace.