Morel Season

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These are morels. They are completely hollow from top to bottom. The cap is attached at the bottom. http://[URL=http://s374.photobucket.com/user/flashover604/media/8FFCC4D4-E017-4557-8FFC-0AEDD655C32C.jpg.html][/URL]
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This is a FALSE MOREL. Notice how the center is NOT hollow. It has a structure almost like a cotton ball. Also, notice how the cap is attached at the top, making an umbrella shape?
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Jim , corrected my earlier post. Meant to call you Jimbo , auto spell correct hit it. Didn't mean anything bad as you're all right w me. Sorry about that. Dave.
 
Morels make the BEST risotto:)

The false ones we have here, are edible too, you just have to boil them and toss out the water. Poison is water soluble.

The morel is sooooo rare here, we hardly ever find them.
There is a small type that will grow on year old chips, so we always make a habit of checking the spots where we've chipped for biomass in the woods last year.
Sometimes, on the spilled chips, one can get lucky.
 
Best one I got was on contractor backfill (gravel) next to a new house. I have friends who've scored Big runs in landscape plantings (raised) ... My guess is the spores were in the mulch used ... Like Stig I try to look at chip piles w no luck so far.
 
With Denmark being such a dreary place, I would have figured you would be drowning in Morels.

Dave, I wonder if you could track down the gravel site the contractor used and go hunting for morels in that location? Like you say, must be spores transported from place to place.
 
We spread around 40 yards of bark for my wedding, next year there were gobs of morels there
 
I find them rarely around here. Always on disturbed sites. Once found a few growing where the outdoor shower drains on the ground, once in our firewood pile (very long term pile), and once growing out of the walls of my rammed earth cabin! I posted pics of that one. I'll see if I can find them again.
 
They are funny,you can never predict if they will grow. I've found the most around hickory trees .

Those and puff balls which are in the fall are the only ones I trust to be safe to eat .
 
Look around Ash, tulip........dead ash on ground is mo betta. Old Apple too.....just have to be careful in orchards if used chemical. I think most fungi are reservoirs for heavy metals from them
 
Al Smith said:
They are funny,you can never predict if they will grow. I've found the most around hickory trees .

Those and puff balls which are in the fall are the only ones I trust to be safe to eat .
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...yep , my eat list is short one. Morels , Chanterelles , and Chicken Of The Woods (Sulfa , NOT Hen Of The Woods which is a disgusting Conch).... Oysters are abundant Spring , Summer , and Fall .. Also disgusting but I regularly harvest them to give away to people that like them. Same withe Puffballs , some like them but not me.
 
Went out for a few hours yesterday. Trevin and I scored these. Bit early at that level, should get bigger and better soon!
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I will have to look for those around here. Spring time thing or through the summer? I never knew about them. My Dad used to pick wild mushrooms but I don't trust them. Puffballs and Chicken of the Woods I know and eat.
 
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