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Conifer Chicken of the Woods
Laetiporus conifericola is the conifer-inhabiting chicken of the woods of western North America, described in 2001. It forms overlapping clusters of bright orange to salmon-orange shelves with a sulphur-yellow pore surface. It is a brown-rot fungus, a pathogen of living conifers that also decays dead conifer wood. It is nearly indistinguishable from L. gilbertsonii except by host.
Edible with caution. Some people get gastrointestinal upset, apparently from old or undercooked specimens. Eat only young, soft specimens or the fresh growing margins, in small quantities at first, and cook thoroughly. Shelves are distinctive, but confirm a pore (not gill) surface.
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