I love to photograph unique mushrooms, like this Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporus Sulphureus), which I came across in Panthertown Creek outside of Brevard, North Carolina. Even though the mushroom is not only edible, but apparently delicious (tasting like chicken, hence the name), I was not confident enough in my identification at the time to harvest it and cook it that night. After much research, there are very few mushrooms that look like this one, and those that do are generally edible as well. Perhaps when we are back in North Carolina in the New Year, I may come across a shelf of these mushrooms…then we’ll see who’s chicken.
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Panthertown Creek, Canada, NC, USA
ST. AMAND PHOTOGRAPHY 
Nature is so beautiful! Hard to believe this is a mushroom.
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