Agreed ! We have three , they ' re like dogs . Except they want to sit on my head and shoulders . <| sep |> Yep , Laetiporus are fairly cosmopolitan . There hasn ' t been a lot of North African ITS sequences run a few S . African have so I don ' t think there have been any formally named species from that area of the continent . It would be interesting to know the species wood it was growing on . are the ITS sequence cladograms for some of the more cosmopolitan Laetiporus including N . A , Japan , South Africa and Europe . <| sep |> Thanks for the sympathy . I ' ve been struggling with motivation lately due to a workplace that clearly does not value me and many of my colleagues too . If I finally get off my complacent ass and publish , I think I can move to a better institution . It ' s difficult because despite my institution ' s leadership can I make those fingerquotes even bigger ? , there are a lot of positives to where I live now .