Laetiporus cincinnatus 


Laetiporus cincinnatus (Morgan) Burdsall, Banik & T.J. Volk 2001

White Pored “Chicken Mushroom”.  Saprotrophic and parasitic brown rotter.  Grows in the form of an orange rosette with paler edge at the base (butt) or from the decaying roots of standing trees, typically oaks. Fruits in summer and autumn. Edible. Many mycophiles consider this species tastier than the more common Laetiporus sulphureusIt used to be in the Fomitopsidaceae family of the Polyporales. It is now in the Laetiporaceae family of the Polyporales.

Laetiporus cincinnatus (Morgan) Burdsall, Banik & T.J. Volk 2001