Took a walk in the woods after work today with the following results:
Thought that some of you who may not be familiar with morels would like to know what they look like.
These are IMHO the best tasting mushrooms you can find. And there’s really nothing else that looks like them, so there isn’t the identity question that you can have with many other types of mushrooms. Found about 3 lbs. today, I’ll be checking another of my spots tomorrow. These are the earlier gray type, there is a tan strain that will follow later. They’ll be popping up for the next couple of weeks, depending on the weather. Then that’s it until next year.
Hard core morel hunters start down south and follow the season north. I haven’t taken it to the geek level…yet.
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Wow!!!!!!
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what!
no dogs?
no pigs?
you must have a cyrano nose.
and a lot of oak trees somewhere.
what a haul!
congrats.
Those are some fine morchellas
I think if I was going to have them, I would have to grow them myself.
There are false morels
But you wouldn’t likely eat one because they don’t generally look appealing.
Briefly, if it looks like a morel and you cut it in half and it is hollow, it is a morel. If you cut it in half and it is solid, it is not.
You would cut it in half anyway to clean it.
Morels are one of the “foolproof five” mushrooms (expandible to the “safe six”). If you don’t know these terms and are interested in mushroom hunting, get thee to a local mushroom club or extension class!
My fav: Sulfur Shelf, a fool-proof five which grows on trees.
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Good night and good riddance!
Woods
I live in the woods; my house is surrounded by woods from three directions. I never looked for anything in the woods (you know, creative class and urbanite to the core - ideal Obama guy).
How do I look for morels and where?
No Dogs or Pigs
Just a sharp eye and persistance. And access to wooded areas where I know they’ve been in the past.
I Sickly Jealous!
They just don’t grow down ’round my area in southwest TN. I miss Morels more than anything!
—mf
From High Atop The Mighty Corrente Building… Comes Wisdom.
Search woodsy areas
That have dead decidous trees and somewhat moist soil. Check in the vicinity of the dead trees, but not on the dead wood. Used to be you looked near elms, but they’re long gone now. But they can pop up just about anywhere - I’ve found them in grassy areas on the edges of woods, and even in flower beds that had been covered in rotting wood chips, but almost never around evergreens. Walk slowly and scan the ground. Once you’ve found a few you’ll develop an eye for the shape. When you find one, stop and carefully scan the surrounding area, they tend to come up in groups. It’s easier to find them on overcast days as contrast from bright sun and shadow make them harder to distinguish.
Weather is the key to when, you need enough moisture and some warm days to get them started. I watch the mayapples - when they’re fully up and the choke cherries are blooming, that’s when I head into the woods.
More ferality
I love this:
It’s so hard to see.
[x] Any (D) in the general. [ ] ?????. [ ] Any mullah-sucking billionaire-teabagging torture-loving pus-encrusted spawn of Cthulhu, bless his (R) heart.