early chicken of the woods

[Treemoose]

It's that colour, it's like a beacon!

[Kveldssanger]

Found a nice one growing on another sweet chestnut (266g worth). Perfectly ripe, so I picked it, and cooked it up with 4 eggs in an omlette. Very nice, I must admit.

[Kveldssanger]

Found a nice one growing on another sweet chestnut (266g worth). Perfectly ripe, so I picked it, and cooked it up with 4 eggs in an omlette. Very nice, I must admit.

 

Attached are some shots.

[Treemoose]

Looks good! That's not trosley park by any chance?

[Kveldssanger]

Nope! A wood in Hockley / Hawkwell, consisting primarily of sweet chestnut coppice (with some areas of hornbeam) with oak standards (and the odd boundary sweet chestnut standard) that has largely lapsed in management. Went back after lunch and found plenty more, but they're all staying well and truly on their hosts!

[Treemoose]

This was the similar chestnut stump i came across last year june 12th.

[shavey]

Iam sorry I don't know very much about fungi but I think this is chicken of the woods it's a beautiful copper beech the fugitive is all over the ground basically the root area of this tree there are many big trees around this beech , sweet chestnut , yew , redwood western red , tulip tree , wellingtonia

[shavey]

The owner is concerned this tree is in trouble

[shavey]

No other tree in the immediate vicinity has any fungi

[David Humphries]

Iam sorry I don't know very much about fungi but I think this is chicken of the woods it's a beautiful copper beech the fugitive is all over the ground basically the root area of this tree there are many big trees around this beech , sweet chestnut , yew , redwood western red , tulip tree , wellingtonia

 

Meripilus giganteus, the giant polypore.

 

White rot decayer of roots particularly when it fruits in such abundance.

 

 

 

.