From: caterpillar@amuscaria.invalid   
      
   mushroomgroup@mushroomgroup.nym wrote on   
   Thursday 31 Aug 2006 6:17 pm:   
      
   > On 31 Aug 2006 08:40:38 -0700, in alt.nature.mushrooms   
   > marion.woolley@gmail.com wrote:   
   >   
   >>Argh, quick question. My partner always wanted to try Chicken of the   
   >>Wood so I went out and got some today on a walk. Only thing is that it   
   >>tends to prefer Oak or Yew and I got this one from Yew. Didn't cross my   
   >>mind until I got it home, but that is safe to eat, right? What with yew   
   >>being such a poisonous tree? I can't find it written anywhere that you   
   >>should only collect it from Oak so I'm assuming it'll be fine.   
   >>   
   >>Any ideas?   
   >>   
   >>Cheers,   
   >>   
   >>Marion.   
   >   
   >   
   > I got some (sulfur shelf)  off a Douglas Fir yesterday.  I've never tried   
   > it   
   > before either.  I only took the freshest of the fresh bits of it.   
      
   I have eaten quite a lot of chicken of the woods   
   grown on yew here in the UK with no ill effects.   
   Incidentally we get it mainly on sweet chestnut   
   rather than oak, though I have seen it on the latter.   
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