"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in message
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Noticed this growing on a couple of silver birch trees down the road
from
where I live.
http://www.g6csy.net/mycology/myco-005.jpg
Apparently they are :
Piptoporus betulinus
Birch Polypore
Class: Gasteromycetes
Order: Polyporales
Family: Coriolaceae
Genus: Piptoporus
and they are edible. I'm off to get some tomorrow. Yum yum.

And who told you they were edible?
The website link I posted?

You'd better sharpen your teeth and
work-up your jaw muscles: they're not (also) called Razor Strop Fungus
for nothing.
Put in a stew for a couple of hours I am sure they would have been fine.
However as the blasted car wouldn't start again, I never got to get them.