It is closely related to the chicken mushroom, or Laetiporus sulphureus.

Laetiporus persicinus has a salmon pink cap and white pores.

[2] This mushroom grows on dead and living hardwood and softwood trees.

[3] It was first described scientifically by Miles Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis in 1853 as Polyporus persicinus.

[4] It has been collected in Africa, Australia, Asia, Europe, Greenland, Iceland, North America, and South America.