Chicken of the woods (Laetiporus sulphureus) is a vivid orange-and-sulphur-yellow bracket fungus that grows in overlapping, fan-shaped shelves on the trunks and stumps of living and dead trees. Soft and succulent when young, its dense, layered flesh has a texture and mild savoury flavour so reminiscent of chicken breast that it has become one of the most popular of all foraged mushrooms for the table.