Laetiporus sulphureus

The Laetiporus sulphureus is a parasitic but edible bracket fungi.

Description
The L. sulphureus is a well-known fungi, prominently regarded by its chicken-like taste and edibility. It's found rotting on trees with a bright yellow to orange hue with its outermost rings being paler in comparison. They grow in shelves with a paler yellow underside mildly contrasting its oranger cap. They are polyporus with white spores and are found in clusters. They tend to grow in the same place year-long so it's good to document their location if possible.

There are several similar species of L. sulphureus so to define L. sulphureus, one must make sure that they:
 * grow on dicotyledons, or flowering trees, compared to L. conifericola which grows on conifers, L. gilbertsonii which grows on eucalyptus, and identical L. huroniensis which is poisonous and grows on the poisonous hemlock tree
 * bracket-like shelf structure, unlike the rosette-shaped L. cincinnatus, which can be found on oaks

Edibility
These mushrooms are edible but there are cases of L. sulphureus being mistaken for a more toxic mushroom so caution should be advised. They should only be eaten young as decaying mushrooms can cause indigestion.