Chicken mushroom

Chicken Mushroom. The chicken mushroom is easy to recognize, with no poisonous look-alikes. It's common and widespread, it has a long season, and it can be huge. The flesh is white, light yellow, or pale salmon, and looks like chicken meat. It’s soft when the mushroom is young, then becomes dry and crumbly when the mushroom is too old to eat. The chicken mushroom grows on trees, logs, or stumps across North America. Most common in autumn, it also appears in spring and summer.