Chicken of the Woods.

 Glowing bright orange on the Church Green today I noticed one of our most attractive bracket fungi, a Sulphur Polypore, Laetiporus sulphurus. otherwise known as  the 'Chicken of the Woods'

   Chicken of the Woods       Photo: John Elliott.

 

 

 

 

 

This fungus is said to grow on living trees, so presumably there is a bit of life left in the old tree stump.
 Classified as edible, it is said to taste like chicken, hence the name.