Mushroom foragers

[jerryse]

No morels here yet . Getting closer . River bottoms are flooded so no morels there this year . Age has me liking flat ground . The hills seem steeper and taller .

 

[duluthralphie]

I look at the lilacs daily.

I even went out the other day on a chaga hunt.....did not see anything

 

[Zoomie]

No morels here yet . Getting closer . River bottoms are flooded so no morels there this year . Age has me liking flat ground . The hills seem steeper and taller .

LOL. Also, it's harder to get up and easier to drop things. What the heck??!

 

[katsdar]

LOL. Also, it's harder to get up and easier to drop things. What the heck??!

and we don't bounce like we used to, seems I'm having trouble staying vertical these days.

 

[duluthralphie]

Have any of you ever heard of a morel growing in a manure pile?

 

[Zoomie]

Have any of you ever heard of a morel growing in a manure pile?

Well... I have not. I'll tell you a funny story, though. (At least, *I* thought it was funny.) My neighbor told me she saw morels in her yard "all the time". Hmmm I thought, that doesn't really sound right... so I asked her to tell me next time she saw one. About a week later she called me up and said there was one by her tree. So I walked up there, and found.... Phallus impudicus but with all the slimy stinky stuff already carried away by flies. Now, with the slime gone, it **sort of** looked like a morel, except stinkhorns have a universal veil sort of like Amanita does, and therefore a volva, so really the likeness was not really there.

All this to say, I've known of people to get things mixed up with morels. But also, I think they come up where they want, at least this is what I have read in keys and so on! So I suppose one might have chosen to come up where a manure pile happened to be.

 

[drewskimac]

I've only found 5 this season ... all in the same place, a few days apart. I'm terrible at morel hunting, i'm not sure what the deal is. I have 3 huge pieces of land that I hunt, and only one spot at one of them has produces. Maybe they just aren't there, but I cant see why not.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Don't feel bad Drewskimac. I don't do Morels very well either. I think they are little clever mushrooms that have excellent camoflage. I wish they were bright orange or yellow like our friends the lobster and chanterelle. But no.......

 

[duluthralphie]

Don't feel bad Drewskimac. I don't do Morels very well either. I think they are little clever mushrooms that have excellent camoflage. I wish they were bright orange or yellow like our friends the lobster and chanterelle. But no.......

I am going to try them, but I do not have much hope......I have a cousin that does ok with them, but he seems reluctant to take me to his spots..........

 

[Bogtown Chick]

I am going to try them, but I do not have much hope......I have a cousin that does ok with them, but he seems reluctant to take me to his spots..........

to those mushroom hunting cousins who do not share.

Smart mushroom hunting cousin. Too smart.