SCOTLAND: The Big Picture / Red squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) sitting on Chicken of the Woods fungus (Laetiporus), Cairngorms National Park, Highlands, Scotland, UK, June.

Philippe Clement / Chicken-of-the-woods (Laetiporus sulphureus) fungus in early stage growing on dead tree stump in summer, France, July

Kirkendall-Spring / Chicken of the woods fungus (Laetiporus sulphureus) in Olympic National Park. Washington, USA. September.

Philippe Clement / Chicken-of-the-woods / crab-of-the-woods (Laetiporus sulphureus) growing on tree stump in forest in summer, Belgium, July

Doug Wechsler / Chicken-of-the-woods fungi (Laetiporus) Fort Washington State Park, Pennsylvania, USA

Andres M. Dominguez / Chicken-of-the-woods fungus (Laetiporus sulphureus) Linares, Cantabria, Spain, August.

Solvin Zankl / Chicken of the woods fungus (Laetiporus sulphureus) Niedersechsische Elbtalaue Biosphere Reserve, Elbe Valley, Lower Saxony, Germany

Colin Varndell / Sulphur polypore bracket fungus, or 'Chicken of the woods' (Laetiporus sulphureus) New Forest, Hampshire, UK September. Edible species

Cyril Ruoso / Crab of the woods (Laetiporus sulphureus) Burgundy, France, June.

Will Watson / Underside of Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporus sulphureus) growing dead oak, Herefordshire, England.

Doug Wechsler / Chicken-of-the woods (Laetiporus sulphureus) edible shelf fungus, Hopewell Furnace, National Historic Site, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, October.

Will Watson / Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporus sulphureus) growing dead oak, Herefordshire, England.