Picture Of The Week (POW) Information & Submissions

[Carol Dee]

It's Chicken of the Woods. it is beautiful. They sell that on ebay...

I agree with @waretrop

 

[waretrop]

I dehydrate Chicken of the Woods and grind it in my special coffee grinder to make powder. great to enhance flavors in things.

 

[baymule]

@journey11 said it is toxic. Called it Omphalotus illudens


http://www.mushroomexpert.com/omphalotus_illudens.html

 

[journey11]

@journey11 said it is toxic. Called it Omphalotus illudens

http://www.mushroomexpert.com/omphalotus_illudens.html

Here's a chicken I found last year (on the tree, they tend to stack up in layers).

http://www.theeasygarden.com/attachments/chickenmushroom1-jpg.8576/

Both Jacks and Chicken mushrooms are saprobic, growing on decaying wood. Did you happen to see if it had pores or gills on the underside? Chickens (Laetiporus species, aka. "Sulfur Shelf") are going to have pores and all I've seen have bicolored (light and dark shades of orange) growth bands. Jack O'Lanterns have gills.

 

[waretrop]

@journey11 said it is toxic. Called it Omphalotus illudens

@baymule, I am probably wrong and @journey11 is right...

Both Jacks and Chicken mushrooms are saprobic, growing on decaying wood. Did you happen to see if it had pores or gills on the underside? Chickens (Laetiporus species, aka. "Sulfur Shelf") are going to have pores and all I've seen have bicolored (light and dark shades of orange) growth bands. Jack O'Lanterns have gills.

You are right...I will edit my post. No one should go by my info...... Thanks. I stand corrected...

 

[journey11]

@baymule, I am probably wrong and @journey11 is right...



You are right...I will edit my post. No one should go by my info...... Thanks. I stand corrected...

It can be hard to tell, especially just from a pic. When in doubt, throw it out.

I thought of another it could possibly be , although the color is off, maybe it's not really as orange as it appears. Berkeley's polypore also has that growth habit, with pores on the underside. So I think for now we will just appreciate it for its flower-like beauty.

 

[Beekissed]

A few pics I took lately....a big red maple up by the coop, a view from my bedroom window last week and the honeysuckle over my garden gate, blooming for the first time...in November!

 

[ninnymary]

Bee, that bedroom view is just beautiful! God sure is good.

Mary

 

[Support]

Mother Nature's perfect planter.

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So many lovely photos to choose from! Thanks guys for submitting them.


Congrats @jackb for winning this week's pow for this photo.

 

[Beekissed]

Bee, that bedroom view is just beautiful! God sure is good.

Mary

He sure is, Miss Mary....all the time and in all ways.