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Curmudgeoness

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12. This is not a chicken of the woods....
Fri Nov 16, 2012, 11:49 PM
Nov 2012

it is a chicken mushroom. Around here, we call chicken of the woods "sheepheads". They are the same type of mushroom, only they are brown colored. They are also solid and have that fringed/layered look. Neither have gills---they are both polypores. They also both grow on stumps or close to the bottom of trees or right on the ground at the base of trees.

Personally, I prefer the chicken or sulphur mushroom, but most people seem to like the chicken of the woods/sheephead. I think that it is the color of the chicken mushroom that turns some people off. It kinda creeped me out the first time too, but then again, I was willing to give it a try since the books said it was choice.

If you find one, enjoy!

For beginner mushroom foragers..... [View all] Curmudgeoness Nov 2012 OP
Don't know the name but MuseRider Nov 2012 #1
This is a chicken mushroom or sulphur mushroom Curmudgeoness Nov 2012 #2
Morels grow where I live but the people who know where they are keep that a secret. Kaleva Nov 2012 #5
All mushroom hunters have secrets. Curmudgeoness Nov 2012 #8
Oh my! Looks delicious. Starboard Tack Nov 2012 #3
Ah, boletes....yes, they are good. Curmudgeoness Nov 2012 #4
mmmmmm mopinko Nov 2012 #6
Although there is a lot I don't like about it, Curmudgeoness Nov 2012 #7
Wow. That is impressive! Flaxbee Nov 2012 #9
You will not mistake this mushroom Curmudgeoness Nov 2012 #10
That is so cool! Tsiyu Nov 2012 #11
This is not a chicken of the woods.... Curmudgeoness Nov 2012 #12
Ah some of the websites call them both the same thing Tsiyu Nov 2012 #13
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