Sulfuric Colesteat - Enchanted by Nature

Sulfuric jaundice (Laetiporus sulfureus)

• young fruiting bodies are edible and quite tasty, old ones are inedible
• In English they are called chicken-of-the-woods
• has a pale yellow color that fades with age
• grows like a parasite on trees that usually die in a few years
• we do not collect yew-growing fungi, because they can accumulate poisonous substances
• The gallbladder must first be boiled and the water drained to get rid of the lectins. After that, it can be fried.