Have you grown Chicken-of-the-woods?

[Alter S. Reiss]

"Sam Jackson" <sam_shrooms at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:pgpmoose.200301301015.20913 at net.bio.net...
> Many places sell plugs of Polyporus (Laetiporus) sulphureus,
> also known as Sulfur Shelf.

(. . .)

> 2.  Have you eaten it, either grown or harvested from wild?
> How as the taste?

It's a good edible, when still tender; it gets inedibly tough as it ages.
It actually tastes somewhat like chicken, though not quite enough like
chicken to fool anyone.