Mushrooms<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe Latin name for this fluffy fungi is Laetiporus sulphureus<\/em>. It’s a heart rot fungus that grows in the wood of standing or fallen oaks and other trees, appearing in summer and fall in eastern North American hardwood forests. Technically parasitic, their presence indicates that the tree’s health has been compromised.<\/p>\nLike most mushrooms, Chicken of the Woods has beneficial properties when eaten, containing antioxidants, including quercetin, kaempferol, caffeic acid, and chlorogenic acid, and it contains lanostanoids \u2013 molecules that have the ability to inhibit cancerous growths. <\/p>\n
That’s impressive, but I’m still not eating them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As someone who hates to eat mushrooms, I surprise myself by being kind of fascinated with these fungi. I think it’s because I associate them with fairies, gnomes, and pixies, my favorite forest dwellers. It’s certainly not the fact that they are associated with male virility because of the phallic shape, ugh. Nope, for me,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[61],"class_list":["post-4886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-few-other-things","tag-flora-and-fauna"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3viLY-1gO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3883,"url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/the-pet-rabbits-leblond-oval-print\/","url_meta":{"origin":4886,"position":0},"title":"The Pet Rabbits, LeBlond Oval Print","author":"Karen","date":"February 26, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"The Pet Rabbits Le Blond No. 75 Date: 1854-1867 Size: 6 3\/4\" \u00d7 5 1\/4\" Children feed two pet rabbits beside their hutch in a cottage yard. From The LeBlond Book by C. T. Courtney Lewis, 1920 91. The Pet Rabbits. Le Blond, No. 75. Another cottage yard. On the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "LeBlond Prints"","block_context":{"text":"LeBlond Prints","link":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/category\/prints-postcards\/leblond-prints\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ThePetRabbits-sq.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Mushrooms-3-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4886"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4996,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions\/4996"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.karenfurst.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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