Which mushroom is this?

Chicken of the woods.

chicken / sulpher. good eating

Wish I knew someone close who ate Shrooms

Like those said above, chicken of the woods. Very good eating if you get them fairly soon after they emerge from the rotten wood they're growing in. They get tough really fast. Sometimes you can get away with trimming off the outer edge if it's still tender.

I usually won't identify a mushroom as either edible or inedible from just a picture I see online,
But that one is pretty much a no-brainer.

Good sauteed with pork chops

Do you use a book for identification and if so which do you recommend?

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"Mushrooms Demystified"; pretty much the bible of mushroom identification. Get this book, then maybe find a regional one if possible.

Thanks.

Great advice about doing your homework on mushroom ID.
There are some out there that will kill you dead as a hammer.

Only one better than a Chicken is the Hen of the woods

Yes, there’s an orange one that pops in big clusters in the spring around tree stumps that is poison. Jack o lantern or something. I stick to only the few I know, have eaten and survived. Hard to mistake morels, oysters, chicken and hens and lions mane.

I found these yellow oyster mushrooms yesterday...









Dipped them in eggs and rolled in cracker crumbs, fried in butter, tasty, VERY similar to morels.