Turkeygirl Posted May 31, 2008 Report Share Posted May 31, 2008 So I'm over at camp with the camp cook, Erica, and we are working on the flower garden and vegetable garden. We wanted to get stuff planted before everyone comes back and make it look cool:cool: Anyway we are walking down a trail from gettings rocks at a camp site and I see something...I'm like Oh my gosh it's a....!!!!! Erica said yeah, I saw that there and stepped over it. Well a little bit later I go over to look around and Erica is getting some dirt to fill in a spot we put flowers, and she points and says Look! I look and there is another one!! I have never found Morels before...I was so excited!! I took them home, mom fried them up quick in butter and we ate them...oh my gosh...they are the most delicious mushrooms ever! We have never had fresh ones before. They truly tasted of God's creation!!! yum yum! I want to go back and look for more.... Where do morels typically like to grow? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHISKEYSWAMP Posted May 31, 2008 Report Share Posted May 31, 2008 Sweet... our season is long gone. I've found most of mine around dead elms and ash trees. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevebeilgard Posted May 31, 2008 Report Share Posted May 31, 2008 morels typically grow on the ground. (sorry, i had to...lol) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PA_RIDGE_RUNNER Posted May 31, 2008 Report Share Posted May 31, 2008 Many of those people that have morel honey holes protect them like a field of poppys or MJ. I have also found them near old elm stumps. To my knowledge no one has ever found the morel growing secret. If someone were ever able to cultivate them they sure would not have to worry about the price of gasoline no matter how high it goes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerClay Posted May 31, 2008 Report Share Posted May 31, 2008 Humans were never made to eat fungus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aksheephuntress Posted May 31, 2008 Report Share Posted May 31, 2008 Humans were never made to eat fungus. ...Oh, come on!!....Vino is fermented!!-mushrooms are great! -Neat find, Ruth...I love those, too...although we have different ones up here.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnf Posted May 31, 2008 Report Share Posted May 31, 2008 We look around shade, moist areas with lots of downed trees. I've never seen them on the trees, but they seem to grow a lot more around them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckee Posted May 31, 2008 Report Share Posted May 31, 2008 Please check out this site Ruth, and other novices . http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/wayne/images/misc_pics/false_morel.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.fs.fed.us/r9/wayne/facts/plant_collect.html&h=138&w=180&sz=17&hl=en&start=10&um=1&tbnid=yW1E-PEVIBRdlM:&tbnh=77&tbnw=101&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfalse%2Bmorel%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1B2GGIC_enCA216CA228%26sa%3DG Description: Morel mushrooms have a distinctive, sponge-like cap. The cap is heavily and deeply pitted. Where found: Moist woods throughout. Availability: Spring (usually in May) Use: Use as a cooked vegetable or sauté in butter. WARNING: When gathering morels, care must be taken to distinguish them from the poisonous false morel (Gyromitra esculenta and others). However, morels are fairly distinctive in appearance. Eating False Morels in quantity can be fatal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkeygirl Posted May 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2008 Thanks for the input Buckee...I'll keep my eye out for those false ones... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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