May 4th, 2008:Drew, grey morel - general location = Bridgman, Michigan Growing Conditions = Same spot as last year!! Under oak trees.
May 4th, 2008:josh dittmer,
grey morel - general location =
burnside il hancock
Growing Conditions = dead elms
Additional Comments = found on april 21 had a frost the next day
May 4th, 2008:Lukw LaShorne,
black morel - general location = I found all mine
in jackson county Indiana.
Growing Conditions = I found the majority of the yellow on a steep NW hillside
about 1/2 mile from the white river.
Additional Comments = good luck shroomers
May 4th, 2008:TIM KERR, grey morel m- general location = ILLINOIS, KNOX COUNTY Growing Conditions = BOTTOMS OF STRIP MINE CUTS,NORTH FACING FINGERS Additional Comments = 123 SMALL GRAYS, FEW YELLOW
May 4th, 2008:Chris Ott and I hit one of his spots today and came out with 189 big beautiful yellows, 12 blacks and 4 half-frees. About 100 yellows were around one gigantic, freshly dead elm, some as much as 30 feet from the tree. It was pretty incredible. -- hugh, Columbus
May 4th, 2008:angela adams, morel-other - general location = middlesboro, KY Growing Conditions = rich shadey lowlands (horse field) Additional Comments = around here we call morels hickory chickens or dry land fish) very good eating!!!
May 4th, 2008:larry barnes, yellow morel - general location = Madison , Wisc. Growing Conditions = Temp 65 degrees. Just starting to appear only about 1-2 inches high. They were there last year and glad to see them again this year.
May 4th, 2008:I live in Oregon and I found these mushrooms in my backyard. I
think they are Morels but I was hoping you could help. I have attached some
pictures of them. They were under a bunch of fir tree's in a grassy area.
Thank You:Eric Brouwer
You have Morels! Enjoy! - Chris M
May 4th, 2008:Pam Kayl, yellow morel - general location = South Eastern tip of South Dakota Growing Conditions = In the sand along the Missouri River they are not coming up in the black dirt yet
May 4th, 2008:Steve M, yellow morel - general location = Lasalle Co. Illinois Growing Conditions = New growth woods near some small ash trees. Additional Comments = This is the only morel i`ve found ,odd season here.
May 4th, 2008:Hi Chris love this site TY found these on may 1st 2008 green county indiana river bottoms there a little dry . need rain hope will stick arround another week till i get my fill .gonna try and catch some crappies to go with good luck all happy hunting Toby
May 4th, 2008:Toby White,
half-free morel - general location =
IN green county
Growing Conditions = river bottoms
Additional Comments = found 48 in all as you can see a few are a little dry need
rain but all in all good shroons maybee a week of good hunting left. good luck
all!!!!
May 4th, 2008:whiski,
grey morel - general location =
madison, wi Growing
Conditions = on the ground
Additional Comments = please keep raining
May 4th, 2008:This season is amazing in Central Ohio! 205 more today. Good luck, Chris O.
May 4th, 2008:Anthony Tassinello,
burnsite morel - general location =
Plumas
County, Northern California
Growing Conditions = Moonlight Fire, Hat Creek Logging Additional Comments = Hey
Chris, I see you landed in Cali, I hope it went okay for you. As for me and my
foraging friends this has been the toughest April I've ever hunted. From the
low elevations 2500'-3200' in logged area we found enough blacks for dinner,
mostly on Sierra-Pacific logging company lands, 3 weeks ago. Conditions
extremely dry and cold. Morels came up and dried perfectly crisp with moist
stems. Nothing bigger than 3". Later in the mid 3000' range in our natural
spots a fraction of what we would normally find, I'm talking enough to fill your
hand. At the Moonlight Fire last weekend along creeks in the 3000'-4000' range
we found cup fungus and maybe 40 blondes and greys all small and feeling the
effects of hot/cold and dry conditions. I won't be back there too steep and
dry, burnt like a moonscape. Upper elevs. may yield if it flattens out and
isn't on someone's mining claim. In logging upto 5000' as of Monday conditions
were again dry and drying out where the snow seems to be evaporating not soaking
into the earth. No morels at all despite perfect terrain. No rain in
site...driest consecutive March-April in 100 years in California. My worst
season to date. Maybe the upper elevations will yield but hunting is real
tough. Some reports of morels coming from the Shasta-Trinity range. Oregon
morels in abundance retailing for $39 a pound. Cheers
AT
May 4th, 2008:Hey Chris! Sorry about the double click. 4x's out since fri 4/25-over 120 yellows, and 200 more 1/2 free's. The mild weather has been great! More days to hunt for that big one! Get 'em while you can! Brad-Jackson Co. K.C. MO
May 4th, 2008:Memory, yellow morel - general location = WA, Nisqually Growing Conditions = Lowlands, nearby were fruit trees of some kind... Additional Comments = some 35 odd
May 4th, 2008:Cooter, grey morel - general location = Found about 15 small greys and 1 small yellow in woodford county near germantown hills. Nothing to brag about though. Just glad I finally found some this year! Growing Conditions = They were growing near a old elm, on flat ground, growing right up through patches of moss.Hopefully after this weekend the yellows will start popping!
May 4th, 2008:Mike Borns, grey morel - general location = Valparaiso, IN Growing Conditions = Around my pond
May 4th, 2008:Chuck Stoops
Jr, yellow morel
greys, peckerheads - general
location = Mason county havana il.
Growing Conditions = in the woods!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 4th, 2008:hi dont know if i already sent this pic but here it is lucy l United Kingdom
May 4th, 2008:Sean, grey morel - general location = Mazomanie, WI They're here!!!! Just checked a spot where I always seem to find the first morels of the year and found a boat load of them. They are all very small and hard to see due to the fact that they are not taller than the violets that they are growing under. All near one big dead elm. Counted approx. 75 of them. I will leave them alone for the weekend and hope that they get bigger. Stepped on a couple of them before I realized that they were there hiding.Growing Conditions = rich lowlands, soil temp 58 degrees
May 4th, 2008:Norm, yellow morel - general location = Carroll County, Indiana Growing Conditions = Mostly around Wild Cherry tees and edge of the woods. Additional Comments = Found 80 half-free, 10 yellows, and 10 greys this morning before the rain (which is badly needed).
May 4th, 2008:Chris, With the exception of the foray a few years ago with you near Macon, I finally found some morels up near Cumming, GA. My brother came in from Arizona and we were planning a trip to Illinois to hunt morels. I came across an area in the winter near Cumming that looked like it might be good. We thought we would hunt this spot (April 14) since we were not leaving for Illinois until the next morning. We were in the woods a short time and I found a single small morel. A few minutes later in some poplar trees, I came across the biggest patch of morels that I have ever seen. They were a little old, but we were able to salvage a few. We were about a week too late. (Picture attached). Our Illinois hunt was a little early and we only found about 70.JIm Finley
May 4th, 2008:The morels are still coming strong in central Ohio. Today we found another mix of 85 yellows, 91 half-frees, 73 tulip morels and 28 verpa conicas. The ash trees have been really productive this year (with like 6-10 on a tree), which is unusual for this area. We found another 12 under an apple tree, which is also not common here. It seems like any and every morel mycelium out there is pushing up mushrooms this year. -- hugh, Columbus, OH
May 4th, 2008:Brian, yellow morel - general location = Jefferson County, IA Growing Conditions = Found along creek bed with several Oak trees nearby. Additional Comments = Finally found a few here in southern Iowa. I have been looking for a week and this is the first day with any luck. Only about enough for one meal but I will gladly take it right now!! Hopefully next week yields plenty more.Love this site by the way, great job!
May 4th, 2008:Warren Co, IA (Middle of state) Tues Apr 29th - Filled a 1/4 of a Hy-Vee bag with aprx. 1"-2" greys and did the same thing on Thurs May 1st. We're getting close.Debbie Cummings
May 4th, 2008:Stephen grey morel - general location = On the river folks they are finally here on may 2nd.All grays 2 inches tall or so and around 30 found.But ran out of sunlight. Additional Comments = thank god old Friday they are finally here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
May 4th, 2008:Dear Friend, I have a wonderful news. Today, while I was wisiting my niece in Scoppoose, Oregon, I found a couple morels. I wasn't sure, it was exactly this kind of mushrooms; when I got home, I looked my book, and Now I am sure, they were morels !!!!!!!!!!! I have been enjoying picking mushrooms since age 4-5 years old. (I grew up in Russia, and for 12 years livrd in Finland).And now, when I am 58 years old, I really missed going to woods and forest for picking mushrooms. It's my only favorite hobby whole my life.A couple years, I have been collecting all information about mushroom societies in Oregon, US. dream comes true.Sincerely, Roza Murphy
May 5th, 2008:jeanie chandler, yellow morel - general location = plymouth indiana marshall county Growing Conditions = we found sweet little patches on a hill side
May 5th, 2008:Hello Chris, I finally found a few in LaSalle County Illinois.3 greys. Ironically my 5 year old son spotted the first one. I heard "Daddy,is this a mushroom?" The short little guy is much lower to the ground than me so I guess shorter is better!!!! Growing conditions:East facing hills near oak and elm.Very wet ground.Growing in areas without heavy leaf litter. Good Luck, Kevin B. Dalzell,IL.
May 5th, 2008:I hit a few local orchards today and only found four esculentas and 11 half frees. However, most of them were good size. I didn't know half frees could get so big. Evan- SC PA
May 5th, 2008:angi w., grey morel black morel - general location = niles mi Growing Conditions = near old apple trees in grassy area Additional Comments = love this site keep up the good work
May 5th, 2008:wendy woods, grey morel - general location = Iowa, scott couny Growing Conditions = south facing hills
May 5th, 2008:terry yellow morel - general location = frankfort in clinton county Growing Conditions = in the grass behind my house
May 5th, 2008:Bass Lake Mike yellow morel - general location = NW.IN Growing Conditions = MAPLES,WHITE PINES, Additional Comments = FOUND ABOUT 500 TO 600 IN THE PAST FEW DAYS BEEN LOOKING AFTER THEM FOR ABOUT WEEK CHECKING OTHER SPOTS THERE GETTING BIGGER TOO. P.S UP HERE IS ABOUT 10 TO 12 DAYS LATE HAPPY SHROOMIN EVERY ONE
May 5th, 2008:shane yellow morel - general location = appanoose county, iowa Growing Conditions = under two dead elms and a locust tree Additional Comments = hey chris i know you're very busy and yet you still take time to provide the best site on the web! THANK YOU for all you do- you're AWESOME ! Thanks for the compliments! - Chris M
May 5th, 2008:Charles Vanwardhuizen, grey morel - general location = Vermillion, South Dakota Growing Conditions = Missouri River Additional Comments = Found a half dozen grays, just starting here.
May 5th, 2008:joe, grey morel - general location = monroe mi three miles north of toledo oh Growing Conditions = under oak trees
May 5th, 2008:Carolyn McMasters, grey morel - general location = Norwalk, Ohio Woods behind us, dead elm and on sides of hills Additional Comments = I'm curious, found some baby morels, really tiny, do they enlarge any or what you see is what you get? Know there lngevity isn't loneg before they decipitate. Black, and Gray Morels/ Yellows, grow slowly over a 2-3 week period! - Chris M
May 5th, 2008:Wes & Valerie, grey morel - general location = Waushara County, Wisconsin Growing Conditions = Big dead Elm "Smoothy"
May 5th, 2008:Gregg Harpel, black morel - general location = 5-2-08 in Noble county, Indiana. Growing Conditions = Founf a nice mess of blacks on east facing hillside along small lake. Then found a nice mess of greys in the skunk cabbage around the mucky edge of the lake.
May 5th, 2008:walker madsion, landscape morel - general location = illinios marrietta Growing Conditions = uander leaves in light brush Additional Comments = its all about having fun
May 5th, 2008:TOM RANKIN, grey morel - general location = desmoines,iowaelms and honeylocust Growing Conditions = under elms and honeylocust Additional Comments = i usually find over 100 lbs per year and sell to resteraunts and the public. my best year found well over 250 lbs.
May 5th, 2008:jim madden, black morel - general location = found them in gravel in our parking lot.in elkhart indiana
May 5th, 2008:Donna Ebner,
grey morel - general location =
MICHIGAN in Washtenaw
County in county park.
Growing Conditions = around dead and dying elm trees not too far off trail.
Additional Comments = have been out looking for a couple of weeks but we needed
some good rain. Had a couple of thunder boomers last night and decided to take
the kids out for a look.Lo and behold we found a dozen or so nice size grey
morels they were really moist.
May 5th, 2008:I found this little bounty In SW Washington state.
May 5th, 2008:Hi I saw your website and I'm hoping you can help. Yesterday when
I walked out my front door I found these in my yard. Today I found some more. I
live in the middle of Tulsa, Oklahoma not in the country or anything. They are
just out in the grass under a tree. I am wondering if these are morels and if
not
what they are. Thanks for your help in advanced...Kim
Sorry, Kim, these are Stinkhorns! - Chris M
May 5th, 2008:We did a foray for Ohio Mushroom Society at Salt Fork today and came out with a good haul: 15 big yellows, 12 half-frees, about 400 or so small tulip morels and maybe 15 that were either small yellows or large tulips. A good day overall.
May 5th, 2008:jason johnson, grey morel - general location = near Boscobel WI Growing Conditions = Found on south facing hill sides under dead Elm trees. Additional Comments = I have found near 3 lbs myself
May 5th, 2008:ron in Monclova Ohio,= half-free morel - general location = Lucas County Monclova Ohio Growing Conditions = Under fruit trees Additional Comments = Found 48 and very large for half free morels. Very early... Left a LOT of little ones to grow bigger... Catch and release :)
May 5th, 2008:Jim Moreland,
morel-other snakeheads couple hundred in the
past week - general location = Undisclosed location in Montgomery county
Ohio,
small greys and yellows, a few blacks, mostly snakeheads.
Growing Conditions = Under Blue Ash and elm trees mostly S/East side of hills
working downhill the past week, the rain we had recently will help a great
deal.I have not found hardly any yellow (sponge) morel yet. Additional Comments
= Looks like we are a week behind in our zone 5-6 in south/east Ohio, usually
the yellows are up in better numbers by now.But this is normal weather for us
compared to the 50s and 60s, a good slow warmup, we may have a bumper crop!
May 5th, 2008:Lesa,
grey morel - general location =
St. Joseph, Missouri Growing
Conditions = Under Elm Trees
Additional Comments = We found about 3lbs today!!
May 5th, 2008:Josh, yellow morel m- general location = Near Heyworth Il Growing Conditions = In timber under gooseberry bushes Additional Comments = found 22 greys, yellows, half free's
May 5th, 2008:Tom Forysth and Son TJ, yellow morel - general location = Galena, IL Growing Conditions = We found about 5 pound around dead oaks, and down hill from the dead oaks. Additional Comments = I'm from IA but went over to Galena IL to look. We found a some small greys, but then got into some good yellows... This was our first time out and we had a blast.
May 5th, 2008:ZAK Zakis, yellow morel - general location = Armstrong County PA Growing Conditions = May 1 2008 3 yellows under an apple tree. Additional Comments = My first morel find after two years of beginner hunting.
May 5th, 2008:cody, grey morel - general location = Washingtion, iowa Growing Conditions = on edge of timber
May 5th, 2008:erin chapla, grey morel - general location = berrien county, michigan, Growing Conditions = found about 30 smallish whites in my spot under a crabapple tree; seemed a bit early, they were small but beginning to dry out already.
May 5th, 2008:jennifer and michael carroll, burnsite morel - general location = The dalles Oregon, Growing Conditions = Burn site Additional Comments = Hi chris we had so much fun on the oregon foray ..we are so looking foward to the yukon trip ...so..happy.... it was a honor meeting you ..your a wonderful person .. It was very educational thank you. Thanks Jennifer! I had a great time also! - Chris M
May 5th, 2008:I found 5 black morels today (May 4, 2008) near State College, PA. They were on an east-facing slope under big ash trees. That makes about 82 for the season so far.
May 5th, 2008:Yellow Morels found in a very old mountainside apple orchard. Roanoke County VA
We found 340+ Yellow Morels in 4 hours the same day as the Virginia Foray, April
26th. I was thinking to myself while hunting, "I hope the Foray is doing this
well". You guys found 700 the first day so I would say you had some success
too. I think the foray took place not too far from us. My next door neighbor
spotted a vehicle with Georgia vanity plates spelling out the word “MOREL” on
his way home Saturday. I hope to meet up with you guys attending the VA foray
next year. This trip out was my wife’s first hunt, and my best hunt ever. A
neighbor very kindly invited my wife and I and a few others to hunt with her on
her families private slice of heaven. My wife and I were the only ones to
show. The hunt began quite well, with us finding 8-10 under the third tree we
looked under. It only got better from there. Most places were we found one, we
eventually found many more. There were patches where these beauties were
everywhere the eye roamed. I hope all of you out there get to experience this
kind of hunt success at least once in your lives. There is nothing like
spotting the first then the second then 10 then 20, then realizing you are
standing over a couple, and turning around and seeing them everywhere. Having
to call over the others because there are so many beauties you cannot keep track
of them all, is just too cool. Under one tree we found 56 and another yielded
48.We stopped just before a downpour of biblical proportions began. We had
every intention of going back out but just decided to call it a day, with the
intention of returning Sunday with those who could not make it out Saturday.
(We did return Sunday, but did not have near the success as Saturday. Sunday’s
haul was still very good gathering another 60-70.) I asked if I could take all
the morels so I could count and photograph them. My neighbor agreed and I am
able to show you the photos of the results. We found a total 340+ morels.
They weighed in at 11 pounds 6.5 ounces. When I called a couple of my other
hunting buddies with the results they arrived within minutes and could not
believe the amount and bulk of what we found.We all planned a "tasting" for the
following evening and about 15 of us "sampled" nature’s delicious little gifts
to us. We had so many morels available that we decided we were going to try all
kinds of different ways of cooking them up. We had everything from cream cheese
and spinach stuffed morels to Cajun spicy morels, (my personal favorite!) We had
a wonderful evening with good friends, neighbors and family. We ate till we
were sick, divided up the rest of the haul. Now we are all preserving what is
left for future gatherings.What a fantastic weekend! I hung off one of the
rafters above the table to take the photos. We just could not get everything in
the photo without the distance. The silver ruler in the photo is 4 feet long,
for scale. You can also see a long neck bottle in the center of the zero. The
square is the same morels rearranged. The square is 3 feet by 4 feet.Thanks for
allowing me to share.Shane Kole - Roanoke VA
May 6th, 2008:clint fandrei, false moral - general location = Racine Wisconsin Growing Conditions = under a dead oak Additional Comments = These are delicious
May 6th, 2008:Mike & Cori, yellow morel - general location = West Burlington, IA Growing Conditions = Top of the hill, in multi-flora roses near a couple of dead elms. Additional Comments = Mostly yellows and a few good sized greys. Remind people to ask permission before jumping on properties! Ran across a guy that was so indignant when caught...hardly the spirit of a mushroom hunter!
May 6th, 2008:Faffnirr, grey morel - general location = livingston county IL
May 6th, 2008:Jason L.,
yellow morel - general location =
Lawrence, Kansas
Growing Conditions = Near Creek beds.. mainly on east or west facing slopes.
Around the larger trees and with mulchy lookin leaves as the substrate.
Additional Comments = We keep finding them every day since about mid-April!!
Snagged up 107 between yesterday and today, and one was bigger than a soda can!
What's more is that it is all despite night time temps every week dipping into
the lower 30's!! We found them this morning while turkey hunting, and we had
another frost too.... And it's MAY!!
May 6th, 2008:Chris mushrooms from Virginia
May 6th, 2008:Mickle, black morel - general location = Albion Indiana Growing Conditions = In grassy area's on south facing hills
May 6th, 2008:Lindsay, yellow morel - general location = Indianapolis Indiana Marion County Growing Conditions = Found 13 yellows under mayapples on the top of a hill near a fallen tree all in a 8x8 foot area.
May 6th, 2008:Waylon, yellow morel - general location = Martin County, Indiana. Growing Conditions = I don't know, I was too excited when I saw a mushroom 10 inches tall. Additional Comments = We found 7.One of them was 10 inches tall.I saw it on my way to the truck.My dad found the others around it.
May 6th, 2008:My brother and his friend found 220 (!!!) blacks and half-frees in Central PA. Under ashes, east facing slope. I don't understand how so many can be at their secret location!
May 6th, 2008:Kevin DeCarlo
yellow morel - general location =
Rockford
Illinois Winnebago County Growing Conditions = On the north edge of a wooded
area. Some in the woods some on the ouside of the edge
Additional Comments = Kept 41 left some smaller gres and 3 yellows to get
bigger.My buddy left with a few more than me.It's on in Northern
Illinois!!!Happy Shroomin"!!!!
May 6th, 2008:Carin Henderson grey morel - general location = Iowa, Des Moines Growing Conditions = By the river
May 6th, 2008:conrad szura half-free morel - general location = Dixon,Illinois Growing Conditions = In grassy areas near woods.Sunny areas
May 6th, 2008:Wanted to make sure we got the right ones. Found these snowbank morels in the cascades of Oregon just at the snow line 5/3/08. We were at some major burn sights from last year but spotted no Blacks. Jeff
May 6th, 2008:Location: Pioneer in Amador County, California around 4000' elevation.In the filtered light areas of North facing hillside of old logging area. Things are starting to happen here and to make it even better, we are getting some rain as I type. First soaking rain in the past 2 months. ----Brian.
May 6th, 2008:Jordan grey morel - general location = Clinton County MI. Growing Conditions = 18 found! I thought it was never going to start in central MI under elm trees in the lowlands
May 6th, 2008:Justin, yellow morel - general location = Covington,Ohio Growing Conditions = may apples in a very soft soil. not sure if this matters but this is where we found the bulk of them. Additional Comments = We found 65 grey morels and 2 large yellows. All the greys came in or around mayapples and the 2 yellows were found at the base of a dead maple tree.
May 6th, 2008:Paul Gibbons black morel - general location = Delafield, Wisconsin Growing Conditions = Rich lowlands, within 10 feet of a dead tree, mixed hardwoods, mostly in tufts of moss
May 6th, 2008:Steve, yellow morel - general location = Illinois, DuPage County, Glenn Ellyn Growing Conditions = Under Oak trees near a patch of wild raseberrys. Additional Comments = Found on 5-4-2008 about 2 1/2 pounds
May 6th, 2008:Randy, yellow morel - general location = Southwest Ohio Yellows and Grays Rich lowlands
May 6th, 2008:Mindy grey morel yellow &grey mushrooms - general location = on river banks Growing Conditions = tall weeds and lower weeds,on sunny slopes,around alot of trees especially dead trees
May 6th, 2008:Jessica Swiger,
yellow morel - general location =
Crawford
County, Il Conservation area
Growing Conditions = Grassy area Additional Comments = We've went several times
and only found 3 large yellows. The first day we found one as long as a cordless
phone at the edge of the woods covered by high grass. Today we went to the same
spot and found 1 a few yards from original one - about same height but ate up by
the bugs. We found the 3rd one same woods but on the other side again in grass
along the edge. A total of 12 hrs this year - 6 different spots and 5 diff trips
and only 3. Im cravin a whole mess :-(
May 6th, 2008:bobbi croker yellow morel - general location = council bluffs,iowa Growing Conditions = in the little valleys by the river Additional Comments = we looked for over an hour and found nothing. then stubbled on three gold mines. we found 175 black and grays what a great day.
May 6th, 2008:Thomas Lark, landscape morel - general location = In wood chips throughout property landscaping beds in Boise, ID Ada co. Growing Conditions = moist, medium size, year old chips (specie unknown)getting nightly watering and drying during day, evening temps. in upper 40s low 50s with daytime highs 70-75
May 6th, 2008:Sheryl P. grey morel - general location = Clinton, IL Growing Conditions = Found in at bottom of hills near streams and around dead trees.
May 6th, 2008:Sheryl P. Found Yellow and Gray morels in Clinton IL. Found at bottom of hills near a small stream and around dead trees. The largest was 6".
May 6th, 2008:cmagic yellow morel - general location = Pocohontos county,Wv Growing Conditions = Poplar Grove , 4000 ft elevation north facing ridge Additional Comments = Found so far 700 three hundred and 475 in a 100 ft area!!!
May 6th, 2008:Chris, I found a mushroom that appears to be a yellow morel. The top or cap is not conected to the stem all the way down. Shaped more like an umbrella. I think it is a false morel. Sorry I am not familar with the proper names. Please help. Thank You Craig R. It sounds like a half free morel, if it is hollow, than you can swallow! - Chris M
May 6th, 2008:Mr. Mushy black morel Dryad Saddles - general location = Ulster County, NY, 12477 Growing Conditions = In mixed hardwoods and near train tracks. Additional Comments = so far have pulled over 100 morels from the woods!! Yeeehaaww!!
May 6th, 2008:jim dean grey morel - general location = Springfield,Illinois Growing Conditions = under a tree, it was a actually downtown between the street and the sidewalk. weiredest thing finding them there.
May 6th, 2008:jason camp, black morel - general location = indiana porter county Growing Conditions = open grass area
May 6th, 2008:forest farmer grey morel - general location = kenosha county wi Growing Conditions = around a couple of dead oaks Additional Comments = think its still early found only one yellow the rest are greys
May 6th, 2008:Chip, grey morel - general location = DeWITT, Michigan Growing Conditions = Lowlands by some elms. Additional Comments = Found 18 greys. Our first for the year. Tried an hour north of Lansing, MI and didn't find any. Went out in the woods in DeWITT for kicks and giggles and we stumbled across a nice group of 18 1-2 inch greys. Hunting should be a good.
May 6th, 2008: Pat Redding yellow morel - general location = Nemaha Nebraska Growing Conditions = southfacing hills in deep timber
May 6th, 2008:Greg yellow morel - general location = Rock Island County IL Growing Conditions = Dead elms on S and E hillsides grassy flats Additional Comments = found just under 5 lbs. first time out this weekend
May 6th, 2008:Amanda grey morel - general location = Holt, Missouri Growing Conditions = Along river bank and under oak tree
May 6th, 2008:shane yellow morel - general location = ohio defiance northwest ohio Growing Conditions = under scruby bushes Additional Comments = found thirty five first time out this year
May 6th, 2008:Jessica yellow morel - general location = Northwest Indiana
May 6th, 2008:Doug Noyes grey morel - general location = First find of the year: 2 small greys and a 3 half-free. Rockford, IL Growing Conditions = Rich lowlands under hardwoods. Additional Comments = Appear to be finally starting here -
May 6th, 2008:Roxy & Randy Taylor grey morel - general location = Hillsdale Co. Mi.Growing Conditions = Dead Elms and Apple trees.
May 6th, 2008:Michelle yellow morel - general location = Woah found these again in Macoupin county just east of Carlinville. For a first time mushroom hunter, felt like I hit the motherload. Found approximately 2.5 to 3 ponds, all very large the largest being approximately 8 inches long. Yummy! Growing Conditions = Found them on the west side of a field before getting into deep timber.
May 6th, 2008:weiser black morel grey morel and blondes - general location = berrien co mi Growing Conditions = under poplar tres and grassy area Additional Comments = seems to be a great year for mushroom hunting
May 7th, 2008:Found these today, Had a heavy frost Wednesday morning.I went back to our regular area in Alleghany County, VA and found these morels today. I believe if we have another rain and warm days again, we will still find some more in Virginia in our hot spot hopefully.This adds 70 more to our finds in this one area this year. Steve & Laura
May 7th, 2008:All of these huge yellows were found under ONE dead elm tree, in a creek bottom near Sullivan, Indiana, by one of my in-laws, Luke Rinehart.
May 7th, 2008:Chris, Just thought I'd check in to let you know that the mojo has
carried on past the trip. Here are a couple pics of some nice ones I found
today. I've probably found about 100 or so since I left on Sunday.
Ohio is
definitely at peak right now. I found this big sponge after leaving the tough
part of the woods. I was leisurely walking back home along a trail and just
came upon it...4 inches off the trail. I no earthly idea how it managed to make
it to this size. The black here is the largest I've ever seen.I have no
delusions of a prize here...just thought I'd fill you in.
Best, Brian
May 7th, 2008:Matthew Thomas, yellow morel - general location = Sullivan Wisconsin Growing Conditions = in rich low lands
May 7th, 2008:Bruce Riddle, yellow morel - general location = Princeton NJ, Mercer County, Growing Conditions = Under Tulip Poplar mostly. Additional Comments = 62 Total
May 7th, 2008:shane spencer yellow morel - general location = ohio richland knox county line Growing Conditions = cherry tree elm trees in swampy area had to look hard most were in heavy cover Additional Comments = i believe seson just starting for richland county ohio for yellows,much needed rain finally
May 7th, 2008: May 3rd, NE OHIO: 79 half free, 47 blacks, 33 yellows, and 17 grays. May 4th, NE OHIO: 22 half free at a local neighborhood park.
May 7th, 2008:Hi Chris, Had a bit of luck today,40-50 half frees,and a good handful of yellows,see enclosed photo.The half frees were very dry growing on south hillside.Yellows,low lying creek area,Location Bureau county,IL.Kevin B. Dalzell,IL
May 7th, 2008:Tom Bartman,
Esculenta & Semilibera - general location =
Washington County, Pennsylvania
Growing Conditions = Found near dying Red and American Elms Half Free's were
near healty Ash Additional Comments = I found 70 Gray Esculenta's and 12 Half-Free's
on 4/1 (Probably left around 150 to grow). On 4/4 Kady and I found another 30
Esculenta's leaving a dozen or so. Season is Pumpin!! Hope the Forays are
going well!!
May 7th, 2008:tom Schultz
grey morel - general location =
Rochester, Mn.
clear cut area with full sun
Growing Conditions = clear cut medium elms. The mushroom was about 2-3 days old
Additional Comments = First one of the year here that I've heard of
May 7th, 2008:D Boatright
yellow morel - general location = Found 25 small
yellows in Dupage county.
Growing Conditions = River bottoms-dead elms Additional Comments = I can't wait
until we get some more rain!
May 7th, 2008:I found these in a streambed just outside
St. Louis, most of them
under one dead elm tree.
-- Feral Boy
May 7th, 2008:Hi Chris, Sorry to bother you. I wonder if you could offer me some advice. Attached is a picture of the Morel we have growing in our garden at the moment. However, my research only shows me morel's in the USA. This is more than a little confusing as my garden is in Southport, Lancashire, England.Is this normal? Should it be here? If you could give me any information I would be really pleased. Many thanks for your help. Gerald
I have had at least 10 reports from UK this year around houses! Great! - Chris M
May 7th, 2008:Brian, grey morel - general location = Cass County Michigan (SW Lower MI) Growing Conditions = On top of a ridge under old apple trees with a heavy mix of wild cherry trees. Found about 30, the largest was about the size of your thumb.
May 7th, 2008:This was the largest of the bunch. Found two pounds of Yellows around Briar Patches in Creek bottom. Morgan County, Indiana. By MOCOShooners.
May 7th, 2008:indiehustler, Verpa Bohemica - general location = Clackamas County, Oregon Growing Conditions = at about 1200 ft. elevation, western foothills of Mt. Hood
May 7th, 2008:J.Orr grey morel - general location = North Webster, Indiana Growing Conditions = Dead Elm, on south facing field edge Additional Comments = Picked 32 small grays on 5/3 that did not even fill a 16 oz coffee cup, however were delectable in breakfast burrito's. I now await here in central-lower Michigan for ours to catch up. Rain has not been good again this year, 3rd year in a row. (PS Chris, your Foray on the Pine River should be good this year, having more rain in Cadillac area)
May 7th, 2008:MR WILLIAMS =
GREYS, YELLOW, DOG PECKERS - general location
= OHIO, KNOX COUNTY
Growing Conditions = ELM TREES, AND FALLEN ELM, IN CENTER OF BRIAR PATCHES
May 7th, 2008:John Larscheid yellow morel - general location = Wisconsin, Green Bay Growing Conditions = South side of ridge. Poplar trees Additional Comments = Went for a walk at lunch. Watching turkeys and looked down to see these in the long grass.
May 7th, 2008:Tom grey morel half-freemorel - general location = Central Ohio near Lake Erie Growing Conditions = Woods, hillside of a small valley with a creek running through it.
May 7th, 2008:Brad Baryenbruch grey morel - general location = Sauk and Iowa counties in WI Growing Conditions = Under dead elm trees Additional Comments = I had sent to you already that we were finding a few, there is still not a lot and they are generally small. I hunt them a bunch and buy and sell 600+ pounds. So far we have only bought about 40#. Thanks for a neat sight.
May 7th, 2008:Carolyn yellow morel - general location = norwalk, Ohio woods behinds us, just a few yel so far, hopefully after upcoming rain be more! Growing Conditions = sides of hills by fallen logs
May 7th, 2008:TIM KERR grey morel - general location = IL,KNOX COUNTY Growing Conditions = STRIP MINES, 781 GRAY,YELLOWS 11 LBS
May 7th, 2008: Update on Forays:- California was dry, we did find a big one and also false Morels there- Gyromitra, Oregon we hit a burnsite and another location, found 800! Ohio was hittin great- 1375 over the 1 1/2 days! We had a big feast on Sunday! - Chris M
May 7th, 2008:Chris , My son and I were out hunting in the rain Saturday morning with no luck. We had searched for about 3.5 hours in Clermont county Ohio with no luck. My son was ready to quit and head for breakfast when we hit a patch with 30 giant yellow shrooms all over 8” in height! I just wish I had more time to go every day.Thanks Chris your web site is great! steve barger yellow morel - general location = Ohio Clermont county Growing Conditions = rich rolling woodlands in the tulip poplars Additional Comments = we were hunting in the rain for about 3 1/2 hours and my son was ready to quit, he wanted breakfast I coaxed him along for another ridge top when we came across 30 fresh yellow giants all over 8" tall
May 7th, 2008:
May 7th, 2008:mike m grey morel = half-freemorel - general location = mohawk valley,N.Y.Growing Conditions = under apple tree
This appears to be Verpa Bohemica. - Chris M
May 7th, 2008:Bill Jordan, grey and yellow - general location = Adair county Missouri Growing Conditions = around maple trees Additional Comments = still finding small greys, and large yellows are popping
May 7th, 2008:Hey, Chris, Just wanted to report that the season is well under way this year here in the Rockford Illinois area. I found my first grays on April 30th, and haven't been skunked since. Yesterday while my son and I were out driving, we spotted a freshly dead elm along a country road so we stopped to check it out, and as soon as I opened the car door I could see morels right in the grass next to the road! We got out and picked 39 in about 10 minutes (we had to get going). I have been finding them under just about every dead elm I've come across. I'm training the next generation right, 3 of my four kids have found mushrooms this year. DaddyO
May 7th, 2008:Ken grey morel - general location = Iowa Scott county Growing Conditions = side hill pine straw
May 7th, 2008:Lisa
yellow morel - general location = Just north of
Dayton, Ohio in Elizabeth Township
Growing Conditions = Dead elms, ash, tulip poplar, black cherry - and just about
anywhere else we looked!
Additional Comments = Three of us found 300+ in under an hour yesterday.
Biggest yellows I've found in Ohio, including a patch of about 100 yellows none
under 6" - 7". They were just everywhere - had a hard time leaving the woods as
we kept running into them all the way out. Have found over 600 in Dayton area
this year already - a banner year!!
May 7th, 2008:Gil yellow morel - general location = Ingham county, Michigan Growing Conditions = south slopes, sandy, wooded Additional Comments = Found first dozen yellows of the season, 1 1/2-3 inches
May 7th, 2008:I have been getting your messages, but I am really a novice at this morel hunting. I had never tasted them until last night. But I had found a couple on our land here in Southwest Virginia in the past couple of years and was curious about them. Then last Saturday, I realized that we had a couple dozen of them, so I asked a man who knows about them to come and verify my find. We picked about a gallon and later in the day, I found another patch. So you have a convert here in Wythe County.
May 7th, 2008:Troy L Johnson yellow morel - general location = Erie, County Ohio Growing Conditions = Under sycamore and old apple trees,in rich lowlands Additional Comments = Also found were a few greys and alot of backs!
May 7th, 2008:holly kaye black morel oysters - general location = NE Ohio, Cuyahoga County. Growing Conditions = Under Ash, along a ballpark, near train tracks. Various locations of west and east suburbs. We have pulled in several hundred in NE OH over the last few days following the big rain of May 3rd. Who ever said NE OH was not a morel area?????
May 7th, 2008:jed yellow morel - general location = missouri lexington lafayette county Growing Conditions = river bottoms and hill sides Additional Comments = long walks pay off
May 8th, 2008:Here are some pics of Mushrooms found today, Our 5yr old daughter loves going mushroom hunting with her Daddy, and loves eating them up too!
May 8th, 2008:Craig Alexander yellow morel - general location = Easton, MO. Dekalb County Growing Conditions = Under Maple trees, near Third Fork of Platte River. Additional Comments = I think it's really important to teach our kids about conservation, and pass down the tradition of Mushroom hunting. Our kids love it!
May 8th, 2008:Christy N Bruce yellow morel - general location = West Milton Ohio Growing Conditions = Found at the bottom of an Ash tree near a dead stump
May 8th, 2008:JEFF THOMPSON yellow morel - general location = OHIO, CRAWFORD COUNTY Growing Conditions = UNDER DEAD ELM Additional Comments = BEST YEAR I HAVE HAD IN 30 YRS HAVE FOUND OVER 500 YELLOWS AND GRAYS ALL SPONGE. I HAVE WENT BACK TO THE THE SAME TREES AND FOUND MORE. THEY JUST KEEP COMING!
May 8th, 2008:Location: Pioneer in Amador County, California around 4000' elevation. In the filtered light areas of North facing hillside of old logging area. Found a few more morels today along with a giant bolete that a squirrel had been chewing on. -----Brian.
May 8th, 2008:We found these in West Milton Ohio
May 8th, 2008:Fred Campbell grey morel - general location = Battle Creek, MI Growing Conditions = First time ever, found around dead pine trees mixed in with dead elms on north facing slope. Additional Comments = I found 12 grey mushrooms today. We need rain real bad. They were just coming up around dead pine trees. Some of them were burnt on the top from being so dry I guess. The weather is awesome but no rain. If we could get rain I think they will be up quite well in the next few days. I hope the folks coming to Michigan with Chris have good luck up North. It seems we are a bit behind this year.
May 8th, 2008:Mike Quigley yellow morel - general location = North west , Putnam County, Illinois Growing Conditions = Most all under elms,in ravines and bottoms Additional Comments = Went out today 5/6/08 for 7 hours and worked like heck for 2 pounds of greys and a few yellow. Just a tough day.
May 8th, 2008:Mark Farow yellow morel - general location = illinois meredosia morgan county Growing Conditions = EVERYWHERE
May 8th, 2008:Jeff Shroom Hunter yellow morel - general location = 26 yellows on South side of a hill in Linn Co. IA. All in one area. Growing Conditions = Moist soil, with lots of ground cover.
May 8th, 2008:The hunt is on! Found 26 yellows today in Linn Co. IA. All on a southern slop hill. Looks to be a great year. Could stand a little more rain though.
May 9th, 2008: Jeff grey morel - general location = Poynette Wisconsin Columbia county Growing Conditions = Near dead Elms lighter soil found around 50
May 9th, 2008:Nancy Fries grey morel - general location = SE of Keosauqua, IA, in Van Buren County Growing Conditions = The same area that has been producing morels for the past 25 years, along a wooded creek bed. Additional Comments = It looks like there will be more. Didn't find any of the big yellows yet.
May 9th, 2008:Hi Chris, Western Massachusetts - Berkshire County My wife and I collected 182 Black Morels today in under an hour. It looks like it will be a good season. Dave Conklin
May 9th, 2008:hammer grey morel - general location = Illinois
May 9th, 2008: e anderson yellow morel - general location = We found a total of 13 yellows, the first batch on April 30, and the last on May 7, in Ithaca, NY area on creek bottoms near ash trees. Happy hunting. Growing Conditions = Near ash. Rich creek bottomland.
May 9th, 2008:Kevin DeCarlo grey morel - general location = Rockford Illinois Winnebago County Growing Conditions = Yesterday 6 nice yellows on top of a south facing hill.Today I went out to a new spot that I scouted out a couple of weeks ago and between a buddy of mine and myself we ended up with somewhere around 65 greys and yellows.I stopped at a spot on my way home and found 3 half frees.
May 9th, 2008:april k yellow morel - general location = york county PA Growing Conditions = under large poplar trees Additional Comments = the best year in recent memory
May 9th, 2008:Dean Bachie yellow morel - general location = Tuscarawas County, Ohio. Near Dover. Growing Conditions = Under an apple tree with mostly poplar's nearby Additional Comments = I found 152 morels today near Dover, Ohio. I got out late so I didn't have much time before the rain and dark set in, but managed to find these in about 40 minutes. Cool website. I just found it!!
May 9th, 2008: Hi Chris, I enjoy seeing the progression maps. I found my first mushrooms this year on Apr 25, and on the following days: Apr 27, May 2, May 4, May 7 near Oregon, MO. (Holt Co.) As a kid growing up in the 1960's, it was not uncommon to find 3 or 4 paper grocery sacks full of mushrooms a day. The season lasted from about Apr 15 to May 20( peaking around May 8 ). In recent years, the season has shortened considerably, usually lasting from about Apr 23 to May 2. That's not even half as long as it used to last. I have very little luck finding mushrooms around elm trees now. I would say that 95 % of all the mushrooms that I have found in the last 3 years have been around live sycamores. Bill McGuire
May 9th, 2008:Kevin grey morel - general location = Michigan, Holly, Oakland Growing Conditions = Around an old dead Apple orchard with lots of Rasberry bush's.
May 9th, 2008:"Outdorr" J.Orr yellow morel - general location = Eaton Rapids, MI. Growing Conditions = D.Elm Additional Comments = These dead elm were so golden ripe they looked like a french fry! Picked 44 yellows under 1 tree, mix of sun & shade, forest floor with limited folage. It's ON in S.Central Michigan!!
May 9th, 2008:steve
half-free morel - general location =
Hocking County, Ohio
Growing Conditions = Tulip groves Additional Comments = Last two trips have
produced about 12 lbs. combined.
Small yellows/greys and a few pecker heads are still coming up fresh. Well over
4000 shrooms and counting on this dream season.
May 9th, 2008: Mike Quigley yellow morel - general location = Kankakee County Illinois. Went out on wed may 7th and looked at a new location, fount about 40 around 3 nice elms. All were about 2" so it looks like they are just coming on. Growing Conditions = All were around old dying dead elms with half the bark gone already. Additional Comments = Its been a cold start to the season but there is promise.
May 9th, 2008:MIke Lukehart yellow morel - general location = Urbandale Ia near Des Moines. Growing Conditions = Hills facing East with lot's of sun and heavy cover. Additional Comments = Found 150 greys on Tues May 6th. Then found 100 yellows in several different spots on May 7th. These are all new spots that I have not found them before. I will check honey holes this weekend. Every body I talk to are finding yellows now
May 9th, 2008:CLM yellow morel - general location = Indiana Marion County Williams Creek Growing Conditions = Damp Woods Additional Comments = 55 Yellows
May 9th, 2008:Audrey Ho grey morel - general location = Des Moines Iowa Growing Conditions = Under elms Additional Comments = They are small but they are starting to poke there heads out! YES
May 9th, 2008: david d ditmars caps,and early morels - general location = mich, north of big rapids Growing Conditions = under ash trees and elms in the state woods Additional Comments = we started early in the morning and didnt stop till dark and ended up with over 1100 caps and early morels we was at the right place at the right time over 28 qt bags with at or over 1/2 lb each in them and were not done huntting yet just becarefull with the earlys there not for everybody
May 10th, 2008:kandice porter grey morel - general location = volga lake fayatte county iowa Growing Conditions = on east hill slope..wet..found not far from dead elm they are still small need a few more warm days Additional Comments = the ticks are way bad out here so if anyone goes out wear some protection i found three on me and they are huge ones at that..freaky...
May 10th, 2008:hi chris landed a couple of nice shrooms yesterday found them about 10 feet from the road around elm trees near knox county ohio
May 10th, 2008:Chris ..Jayson here again ...found a mess again today near Laurelville ohio same spot only this time was in the bottoms and the base of the hills mostly .. although some were found at the top still and amazingly enough we are still finding fresh blacks .... but I wanted to share the photos of a couple 8 to 9 inch yellows I found today may 8th ...more of these will be poping up this weekend I'm sure ...
May 10th, 2008:Chris, Hello from me again in Wyoming. These morels came from Converse County. I found them in deciduous leaf litter and grass bunches. It has been raining the last few days a LOT for here. A couple of warmer days they will be popping like popcorn. My friend has these other mushrooms growing on his property. Habitat is altered earth zone planted with some grass and russian olive trees. Gently sloping ground with a high amount of organic debris in the soil...manure, tree debris etc. The mushrooms are a LOT like a blewit in appearance but wrong color. Margin is strongly incurved. No sign of annular ring or veil. Smell is like mild matsutake crossed with store bought agarics, pleasant mushroomy. They are almost subterranian in habit. Crowns of the cap just barely visible above the earth. Stem is solid and flesh is firm nice. This friend of mine says he regularly consumes them and so I must say they are an edible of some type. I suspedt that they are a trichloma of some type and am in the process of making a spore pring if they will cooperate. I have not eaten them and would prefer to know more about them.
May 10th, 2008:John
grey morel - general location =
Sheboygan County,
Kettle Moraine, in WI. I just stopped along a roadside, and thought,"hmm...maybe
there are MORELS there!!!!!"
Growing Conditions = I found most of these morels growing in moss/mossy areas
scattered among various bushes,trees, and soil types.... Additional Comments = I
want these things to head more North so I dont have to drive so far to even
LOOK! Good luck y'all.
May 10th, 2008:Just some of what we are finding in Ohio hope everyone if finding them like this found 30 about this size Sat. MAY 10th Looks like there about done here
May 11th, 2008: Cory Martin here (cmartin@skyww.net). Not current member, but have been in the past. I receive your newsletter. Saturday May 10, 2008, found about 50 morels, divided evenly between grey and yellow, at Pelican Point State Rec. Area, along the Missouri River northwest of Tekamah, Nebraska (Burt County). About half were found in the open grass of the wooded park, the other half in the adjacent woods.
May 11th, 2008:Found around 8 lbs of Greys and Yellows on 5/8. 2 different areas under elm and ash. Tioga County New York. I left around 100 in the woods that were too old.
May 11th, 2008: I found 6 yellow morels May 10 around State College, PA. The biggest one was about three inches tall and grayish. I left it and one other one to grow. They were near a big ash tree. My family and I also found a whole bunch of Polyporus squamosus and oyster mushrooms. It's been a great year for fungi! ~Tim
May 12th, 2008: Nancy, Chris Ott and I led two forays for Ohio Mushroom Society and found a total of about 55 mostly yellows with a few tulip morels and half-frees. Not a huge find but enough to make us happy. As you can see from the attached photos, the yellows in northern central Ohio are still pretty young, some too little to pick. -- hugh, Columbus, OH
May 12th, 2008:Scottn - Berrien Center, Michigan, we found these in an apple orchard. We found yellows under the golden delicious trees and blacks under the red delicious trees.
May 12th, 2008:we found a meal of black mushrooms in a small pasture. as it has been dry here they were found in rich lowland. in Minnesota, Kittson County, Lancaster. about 2 miles from the Canadian border on May 12,2008. We believe they are just getting started here if we could just get some rain.
May 12th, 2008:64 gray morelsand 10 half-free morels on May 10th. Found under/near dead elm trees with partial bark. Flat forest floor with an unhealthy overgrowth of floribunda bramble (ouch, my legs), grasses and some mossy areas. Milwaukee, WI Have a confirmation picutre with shrooms and yesterday's paper if needed.
May 12th, 2008:Found 30 good size black morels in my suburban front yard mulched flower bed on Mother’s Day (May 12th, 2008). First one that I’ve spotted this year in Saint John, New Brunswick (Eastern Canada). Stephanie Turner
May 12th, 2008:I found grey morels around a dead elm on 5/10/2008.Bob Carlson
May 12th, 2008:SZ Togiak yellow morel - general location = Finally Found some morels here in MT. Runnin a little late it seems? We found about 25. Growing Conditions = Along the river
May 12th, 2008:We found a few tonight. They are small greys. We didn't have time to hunt for more than an hr. They were found in Brown County Minnesota. We've been checking our spots every few days and just found some for the first time this year. The ones we found are only a couple days old from what I can tell.
May 12th, 2008:J.Smith grey morel - general location = Mingo,Iowa Hill tops Growing Conditions = Top of Hills around smaller dead trees.down the draws Additional Comments = Its been a good year for greys so far they came a little late hoping to have a few yellows yet
May 12th, 2008:Anthony Tassinello burnsite morel - general location = Along the Klamath River outside of Happy Camp, CA Growing Conditions = All slopes were fruiting, in the madrone litter, among the pines, out in the open, under logs, in moss, in the grasses, basically everywhere. In the pine needle duff as well...of course. Additional Comments = 32# in two half days of hunting. Blacks, greys, reds and yellows. Left hundreds and hundreds of drying out morels behind. Wish I had a cloaking device for my car to keep the other hunters from finding our sweet "Frying Pan Ridge"
May 13th, 2008:Nancy and I hunted for several hours in the cold rain today and found another 32 yellows and 102 tulip morels. Some were a bit water-logged, but most were in decent shape. Some of the yellows are still very fresh here, especially the ones coming up around ash trees.-- hugh, Columbus, OH
May 13th, 2008:Pittbulllover, yellow morel - general location = belton missouri, Growing Conditions = under big ash lots of undergroth Additional Comments = off blue river about 75 to 100 ft from river
May 13th, 2008:cyle yeager morel- - general location = platte city, platte county missouri Growing Conditions = near a rich creek bed Additional Comments = I found a FULL FOOT LONG morel mushroom TOdAY!!!!!! i STIll hav not see a morel that can come close to mine
May 13th, 2008:trapper black morel - general location = colvile wa
May 13th, 2008:chris gutshall yellow morel - general location = panewville cumberland Growing Conditions = rich lowlands Additional Comments = there about done here
May 13th, 2008:DaddyO here again from Rockford Illinois, found another bunch of beautiful yellows , Found them in grass along road near a group of dead elms. Didn't find many under the trees, most out in the sun. They were getting kind of dry and old, looked like they had been up since the last frost cause a couple were frostbit on top,
May 13th, 2008:cathy culbertson yellow morel m- general location = Central Iowa,Marion Co.
May 13th, 2008:John Greys and blacks - general location = Cheshire County Growing Conditions = Ash and aspen Additional Comments = Found 6 greys and two blacks that were almost gone by.
May 13th, 2008:boomer yellow morel - general location = missouri,holt, Growing Conditions = fince rows ,dead trees Additional Comments = we found 88 thought the season was over??
May 13th, 2008:Shannon grey morel - general location = Sparta, WI Growing Conditions = Mossy green lowland areas.
May 13th, 2008:Rick = yellow morel - general location = Verona, New York Oneida County Growing Conditions = under dead elms
May 13th, 2008:stanley kyle yellow morel - general location = effingham county Il. Growing Conditions = hills&hollars! Additional Comments = mostly fresh 4+pounds. some giant yellow. 0ne 8" about half-pound.
May 14th, 2008:Dave snowbank false morel - general location = Angora burn site, South Lake Tahoe California -Growing Conditions = Conifer burnsite from last July, 6,000 to 6,500 ft, NW slopes just below snowline. Additional Comments = Was hoping to get some fire burn morels, but it was WAY too dry. The only ground that had any moisture was directly below melting snow, and that soil was too cold for true morels; by the time it warmed up it was totally dried out. Since Brian in Amador reported morels at 4,000ft for the past few weeks and rain last Tue/Wed, I was hoping it might fruit up higher by now - but it looks like no season this year in the Sierras. The last big snow we had was in early March, what little precip there was in the end of March and April (usually our wettest months) and the one shower in May must have been only in isolated spots. What a waste of a good fire. I hope the burn will produce next year, assuming conditions are better. Does anyone know if burnsites can fruit the second spring after a burn if they don't fruit the first spring...?
May 14th, 2008:Janette Hartmann yellow morel - general location = Found in my front yard in lovely Steger, Illinois. Growing Conditions = They were sprouting out of the moist ground underneath the last limb of a dying crabapple tree.
May 14th, 2008:Gyomitra esculenta - general location = WA, Bremerton Growing Conditions = Dense Conifer forest Additional Comments = Conifer Morels better known as false morels...staggered by the amount...hundreds of them covered the area, among the largest had caps appx. 7cm...made for a fun day of observation and identification but no morchella...other finds, big oysters 17 cm wide, red belt artist's fungus...also came across some strange beige spiny-mucosal-puffball looking things w/no apparent stems..anyone has an idea of what it might be let me know..sorry no pics
May 14th, 2008:Stacey Greenwood = other - general location = Bothell, Washington Growing Conditions = Around the perimeter of the building I work at. Additional Comments = We have found a few small morels growing around the building in the landscape bark. All about two feet away from the building.
May 14th, 2008: bubbadank yellow morel - general location = nebraska near the dam Growing Conditions = under dead cottonwoods
May 14th, 2008:alex klinovsky yellow morel - general location = loveland, co Growing Conditions = among dead logs and leaves in flood plain Additional Comments = found seven large and a few young yellows on a whim hunt will continue to hunt the area
May 14th, 2008:shane yellow morel - general location = defiance ohio north west ohio Growing Conditions = on creek banks and east facing hills Additional Comments = found some really big ones today great year so far happy hunting to all
May 14th, 2008:Kevin DeCarlo yellow morel - general location = Rockford Illinois Winnebago County Growing Conditions = East facing hills and fence linesAdditional Comments = Sice my last post I have foundover 150 greys and yellows.21 yellows that I found at a new spot today that I have been eyeballing were huge!Kev
May 14th, 2008:joseph dimeglio yellow morel - general location = found in the state of oregon, between eugene and oakridge(lane county). several hundred morchella esculenta in riparian late successional populus tricocarpa stands mixed with acer macrophyllum and abies grandis.
May 14th, 2008:Pat yellow morel - general location = Iowa - Hamburg - Fremont County Growing Conditions = around dead elm, ash and even cottonwood
May 14th, 2008:Ray yellow morel - general location = Near Polk City, IA Growing Conditions = Near huge downed dead elm on the southern side of the bottom of a creek. (flat ground, not the hill) Approximately 30 small to pop can sized yellows in a 30 foot radius around the downed tree.
May 14th, 2008:Hey Chris! Thanks for thinking of me-been picking and grinning for the last ten days! My son and I hit our own little honey hole 'up north', back home in Marshall Co. Ks., this past weekend. That's Marysville-Home of the Black Squirrel. We picked about 150 yellows in three hours with my niece( 8 mths pregnant) and her husband right up until the brunt of the storm, on sat eve. -':.) Then my son and I picked about 300 on sun morning! Made a couple videos on my cam. of the Motherlode! Certainly my best year ever with over a 1000 for the season! Looks like its been the same for many of us out there! wanted to thank you for extending the photo contest and if I'm still not too late I've attached a pic. to enter. Thanks again for all you do for us fellow shroomers! Hope to be a member soon! Brad in K.C.
May 14th, 2008:Location: Pioneer in Amador Co. CA. Found a few morels in the neighbors small apple orchard at 4000' elevation. Orchard was on sunny SE facing hillside. ----Brian.
May 14th, 2008:Alain black morel - general location = East of Orangeville, Ontario Growing Conditions = UNder Cedar trees Additional Comments = I'd like to know about other good spots near Toronto
May 14th, 2008;srl grey morel - general location = Carver County, MN Growing Conditions = Around dead elms - open, grassy area. Down on hands and knees. Additional Comments = It's starting here in Minnesota - 33 grays. Not huge, but respectable. Around dead elms but in open areas with lots of sunlight in the grass. Check a couple of reliable spots deeper in the woods but nothing yet.
May 15th, 2008: I'mstill finding a lot in central OH, though now mostly on the north andwest-facing slopes. I found 33 yellows, 45 half-frees and around 200tulip morels this morning. Some were beat, but many were surprisinglyfresh. The cooler temperatures have helped a lot. -- hugh, Columbus, OH
May 15th, 2008: Scott Livezey yellow morel - general location = Des Moines, Iowa Growing Conditions = All over in wooded areas. Under trees, brush, ridges, and valleys. Additional Comments = They are out now all over Iowa. the more you walk and look, the luckier you get!
May 15th, 2008: Your name = LJ, grey morel - general location = Iowa, Quad Cities Area Growing Conditions = On a hill side covered with moss. The ground was very damp and they were popping up from under dead leaves. Not sure what trees but their was some dead ones lying around.
May 15th, 2008:My son, daughter, and I found about 40 in about 15 minutes in Mackinaw, IL
May 15th, 2008:I found only one today, the first of (I hope) many. Just north of St. Croix Falls, WI.
May 15th, 2008:Found about 6 lbs of two kinds of oyster mushroom strains (pleurotus sp.) in Knox county, IL. One on oak the other on some other kind of hardwood. Early for these around here. Also found a bunch of morels on the same day! Looks like a great spring for fungi around Illinois! peace and panic Mark (central IL)
May 15th, 2008:mary evans grey morel - general location = 2 dozen. In Milwaukee and west of Milwaukee Growing Conditions = Under dead elm trees
May 15th, 2008:Joel Martyn burnsite morel - general location = Ca. El dorado County, Growing Conditions = North facing slopes at 6300 feet Additional Comments = Finally!!! after waiting for winter to release the CA Sierras, I found about 5lbs of fresh burnsight morels. They are just starting to emerge in sandy soil under burnt out fir trees, under logs, out in the open, everywhere! going back tomorrow! WOOT!
May 15th, 2008:In one evening,mostly around one tree, My husband and his brother found 15# all together.
May 15th, 2008:Just wanted to submit some photos of our latest find. Getting the kids involved makes it even more fun. Would really like to see them on your website some where.
May 15th, 2008:My name is Kris Franklin and I live in New Albin, IA (NE corner of Iowa) and I thought I would share this photo of the large yellow morels that I found today,(5-12-08). Can you please post it in the locations and finds part of your website so everyone can take a look at it? Thank you. I plan on becoming a member soon.
May 16th, 2008:Morels found in Keene New Hampshire, under ash trees deep in the woods near the black flies. Noah Siegel lead a club foray. It was ostensibly a wild flower foray, but for some reason, folks were paying more attention to morels than wildflowers. ;-) I'm not sure what species they were, possibly several. Delicious in any case. Still pretty dry in mid-NH, need some rain for morels to pop up. We found enough for every one of the dozen of us to have a meal.
May 16th, 2008:Scott Livezey, yellow morel - general location = West Des Moines, Iowa Growing Conditions = Near a stream bank in wooded conditions. Additional Comments = I found 45 yesterday in about an hour and a half. I found 74 in about 3 hours. My buddy Steve found at least the same amount so together we found around 250 mostly yellows in the last 2 days. The key to finding mushrooms is the further you walk, the luckier you get!
May 16th, 2008:My friend and I went hunting for the first time, we didn't find many, but we did find a spectacular one! It's wearing an acorn hat, that's very secure on the mushroom. So we're assuming it grew like that and wasn't just placed there. I think it's a yellow. -- Porter County, Indiana. Found under Oak trees. Sarah D
May 16th, 2008:Dan Flack yellow morel - general location = Winona, MN Growing Conditions = Yellows were in City park in the open grass, about 3 pounds on May 05. Greys and half-free in the woods on south facing hillsides under dead elms (about a pound) on May 02. Additional Comments = First find of the year in Houston county MN was a few greys on April 17.
May 16th, 2008:Elizabeth Olson yellow morel - general location Found a few scattered around the base of a large tree (not an elm). They were small, but seemed to be somewhat dried out. (We hadn't had any rain for awhile.)
May 16th, 2008:FOUND YOUR SITE ON THE NET AND ITS GREAT, SENDING YOU THIS PIC OF A MUSHROOM I FOUND COUPLE DAYS AGO . IHAVE HUNTED MUSHROOMS SINCE I WAS A SMALL CHILD GOING WITH DAD, BUT IN ALL THOSE YEARS THIS THE FIRST FOR ME OF THIS COLOR. WAS WONDERING IF YOU KNEW THE NAME OF THIS THANKS FOR ANY IMFO VICKY MOAK
These are normally found in the Fall, rarely in the Spring, this is "Chicken Of The Woods" a delicious edible! Enjoy! -Chris m
May 16th, 2008:I'm attaching some pics of the mushrooms some friends and I found in Marshall county, near Plymouth, Indiana. We found several varieties all over the place in a friend's woods. They were growing in the normal places, around fallen dead trees & branches and under the leaves from last fall but we also found them in the grassy areas and growing up under the may flowers. Overall we found about 300 mushrooms.
May 16th, 2008:MMNEBRASKA grey morel - general location = nebraska, dodge county Growing Conditions = near downed cottonwoods, semi shady
May 16th, 2008:Found a bunch of black morels here in Central IL today! What a surprise, peace and panic Mark (central IL)
May 16th, 2008:phillip morrison yellow morel - general location = byron, illiinois ogle county Growing Conditions = rich lowlands old railroad bed Additional Comments = Late coming, in this neck of the woods it seems,been to chilly warming up some now
May 16th, 2008:I found two small yellow morels under a good-sized ash tree next to a creek. We have had a lot of rain lately around State College, PA. ~ Tim
May 16th, 2008:Hi Chris, Hope all is well. I finally got a chance to update you on all my finds. Location: Wasington County, PA Species: Esculenta, Deliciosa, Semilibera Growing Conditions: Mainly Dying Red and American Elm, Healthy Ash, Dead Apple (Stone dead. Weird huh??), Healthy Sycamore. On 5/6 picked a total of 235 Yellow and Half-Free. On 5/8 another 65 Yellow. 5/10 I found an additional 41 with a dozen being deliciosa and the rest esculenta. Then again on 5/12 another 36 of esculenta was found. Thats alittle over 550 total for the season here in PA. I've been wore out trying to keep up with cleaning and preserving. Having a blast though!! GL all!
May 17th, 2008:norb woods yellow morel - general location = Schenectady, New York Growing Conditions = sandy, grassy hill under pines and in the open
May 17th, 2008:I'm still finding a few in central Ohio. This morning I found about 25 yellows, 63 tulip morels and a half-free -- not to mention about 15 huge yellows that were too old. Many were still pretty fresh, though, which is surprising this late in the season. Check out the twin tulip morel -- hugh, Columbus
May 17th, 2008:Hi Chris, I took these pictures this morning of a good size Crown-tipped Coral (Clavicorona pyxidata) and thought I'd send it to you. This particular woods is the only place I've ever run across this fungi. I also found 5 nice big Yellow Morels. The largest measured 8". Hard to believe I'm still finding mushrooms this late around here. Steve
May 17th, 2008:BRIAN P,
yellow morel, GREYS,WHITES - general location =
GENESEE COUNTY,MICHIGAN Growing Conditions =
SANDY MOIST DEAD ELM AND POPLAR
Additional Comments = I WISH TO SIGN UP AND SEE WHERE PEOPLE ARE FINDING ROOMS
BY COUNTY IN MICHIGAN CURRENTLY...I WILL SHARE MY INFO BY COUNTY ALSO
May 17th, 2008:Joel burnsite morel - general location = South Lake Tahoe, CA. Growing Conditions = Found them in sandy soil under burnt out fir trees, as well as lying under old growth cedar trees that had been felled after the fire
May 17th, 2008:Steve Wahlborg grey morel - general location = Fountain City Wi Growing Conditions = West face in bottom of valley I found most of them. they seem to be out were the afternoon sun hits Additional Comments = Looking forward to the weekend. Mabey even some big yellows. Good luck to everyone.
May 17th, 2008:Kelly grey morel - general location = jackson county oregon Growing Conditions = hillside under trees and around an old pile of brush
May 17th, 2008:joseph dimeglio yellow morel - general location = hello chris, i saw an incredible amount of morels on todays rhizosphere measurements and sporophores counts. found in late successional riparian lowlands, about 60 miles south east of eugene, oregon. our spring has came on very slow this year and actually yellow morels would have just about finished by now in the lowlands. good luck to all
May 17th, 2008:chris i really enjoy watching your site and seeing the enjoyment and excitement that people get from gathering morels, im sending you a few pictures from this past morel season to share with the others that frequent your site .... if you will be in northern MI the 23-26 of may please let me know, there will be a small group of us up there pickin and id really enjoy meeting you
May 17th, 2008:GREG LAWRENCE yellow morel
-
general location = WESTERN MASS. USA Growing Conditions = APPLE ORCHARD, ONE HOT
SPOT IN A LARGE ORCHARD
PRODUCED 17 MORELS. MUSHROOMS IN THE SUN WERE VERY SMALL, ONES SHADED OR
UNDER LEAVES WERE LARGE. LOOKS LIKE THEY WERE OUT FOR A WEEK OR SO PRIOR
TO FIND, JUST DIDN'T SEE EM' TILL LAST NIGHT.
May 17th, 2008:Hi Chris, Not a card carrying member, but love your site. Went hunting in Northern Il. - Winnebago & Carroll county over mother's day weekend. Made quite a haul...pretty much yellows and grays under the proverbial dead (but not too dead) elm. Had a hard time transporting them all back to Az. but well worth the trip and trouble!!! Till next year....
May 17th, 2008:mike grey morel - general location = central ohioGrowing Conditions = mixed woods
May 17th, 2008;found three today just north of st croix falls wi. yeehaa!!! felt like i wasn't going to see any!! john
May 17th, 2008:Jim Jaworski black morel - general location = First finding in Manitoba, Canada. 10 small blacks found 30 miles north of the city of Winnipeg, along with 100+ verpas. The absolute beginning of the season in this part of the continent. Thanks to Chris for expediting the mesh bags from his e-commerce site. Growing Conditions = Old treed pastureland with lots of birch, aspen and poplar.Additional Comments = Although some people eat the verpas, I generally stay away from them as I enjoy drinking wine with my mushroom meals...verpas can cause a toxic reaction whn consumed with alcohol. They're pretty, though!
May 17th, 2008:Steve yellow morel - general location = Illinois, Glen Ellyn, DuPage county Growing Conditions = rich lowland by a gulley - ash and popluar trees Additional Comments = Found a hot little honey hole. 50 nice size yellows. avgerage size 4/5 inches..
May 17th, 2008:B.Seward yellow morel - general location = Illinois Growing Conditions = Under Elm trees and plenty of brush. Additional Comments = One we(my brother and I) found was the shape and as big around as a tennis ball,never saw one like it before in 30 years of hunting. It was a good year. Last week we found 330 in one general location. Awsome!
May 17th, 2008:Jay grey morel - general location = Cottage Grove, MN Growing Conditions = Steep bank under dead elm. Tree was about 5 inches in Diameter. growing mostly in moss. In full sun on a south facing hill.
May 17th, 2008:Chris, Here is the one morel I found in Rochester.And our cat Roger sniffin the goddies.Hope you like em. David Willard
May 17th, 2008:Hi Chris, My morels were found on South Cle Elum Ridge in Washington State at approximately 3500 feet in two different locations. I found the darker ones (grey-black)? Around pines and firs in more of an open space. I found the the yellow appearing ones in a different area, both on the south sides of a slope. The yellows were found amongst mostly firs with some pines in a denser area under old dried up grass. They were all in area's where snowbank false morels were growing. I finally found my first MORELS. Yippee.
May 18th, 2008:We led a morel foray for Ohio Mushroom Society today at Mohican S.P. and found 23 decent yellows and 1 tulip morel, plus about 8 that were too old. The biggest find was 8 very fresh ones around a dead elm, and the rest were scattered around tulip poplar, ash and cottonwood. -- hugh, Columbus, OH
May 18th, 2008:jim burke grey morel - general location = berkshire county ma. Growing Conditions = most were found around ash trees in lowland and and high land settings.Its about time.
May 18th, 2008:terry haugen grey morel - general location = southern Minn Martin county Growing Conditions = near dead elms on hill side faceing east Additional Comments = been slow going here just now getting warm
May 18th, 2008:Hi chris we found lots at the spot we went on the foray both of them ...but all we found in the cotton woods was nettels ouch ...have a good day...-your truely jennifer-
May 18th, 2008:Jeff Rice black morel - general location = Talmoon MN. Itasca county. Only found a couple very small ones. Are spring has been very late and cold. We are at least 7-14 days behind from last year. We had frost last night. (5-18-08) Growing Conditions = Found in younger popals. Heavy leaves and moist.
May 18th, 2008:Melany Kahn
yellow morel -
general location = Both in Guilford VT and Chesterfield NH, the half frees and
blacks were out last weekend and today we found a few dozen yellows. We are
getting some much needed rain tonight so hoepfully mroe will be out this week.
Growing Conditions = under apple trees in orchards. The dandelions are infull
bloom as are the apple trees.
Additional Comments = The rest of the country seems to be experiencing a
phenomenal season, not so sure abotu hte New England states yet, any one have a
comment on this area?
May 18th, 2008:Roger/Bill/Wayne/Derrick yellow
morel - general location = Found 15 to 18 gallon in Northern Il. Winnebago &
Carroll Counties. Mostly gray but mixed in with a nice qty of yellows.
Growing Conditions = Found by the proverbial 'dead but not too dead' elm trees
Additional Comments = Great fun. Kind of a mother's day tradition.
May 18th, 2008:Luke W. Zebrowski morel-other - general location = Thompson, PA Growing Conditions = Under a mix of Ash and Hard maple trees.
May 18th, 2008:Went up to Iowa yesterday to look, found very few. Then found this one this morning while mowing yard in suburb of KCMO
May 18th, 2008:Paul & Robert grey morel - general location = Fountain City, WI Growing Conditions = low on steep hillside of basswood. Additional Comments = Go pack!
May 18th, 2008: It appears to be a good crop of Morels in Michigan and in Wisconsin. I just finished up at the Boyne City Festival, and the winner found 509 Morels in 90 minutes, that is one every 12 seconds. I went out after the festival today and hunted nearby for 3 hours and found 6 pounds! Look at this huge clump I took a photo of with my cell phone! Happy Shrooming! - Chris M
May 19th, 2008:John grey morel - general location = NH Cheshire County Growing Conditions = Ash and Elm Additional Comments = I think New England is having a not so good a year. We need rain BAAAAD! Seems to me that we have had three bad years in a row now.
May 19th, 2008:Scott Livezey yellow morel - general location = west des moines, iowa Growing Conditions = bank of a stream Additional Comments = I found this one last tuesday during a successful hunt in which we picked over a 100. Wanted to make sure you could share a picture of this special shroom which has 5 morels growing off of the same stem! They are basically done in southern Iowa, cant wait til next year!
May 19th, 2008:rusty schroeder yellow morel - general location = Michigan Durand Growing Conditions = dead elm tree railroad grade Additional Comments = slow and slim pickens
May 19th, 2008:Shelle
Crown Tipped Coral - general location =
Portage County Ohio. Saw the most Amazing Mushroom
Saturday while hunting morels. I was gonna look it up after i checked your site
but Thanks to Steve for his post & photo a few days ago - i don't have to.
That's exactly what we found!! I've never seen one before. Very Lovely! The
Morels were yummy!
Growing Conditions = Found in scrubby undergrowth, near a few old apple trees in
mostly maple woods with scattered ash/elm/cottonwood, etc. Additional Comments =
So many people are familiar with your site now Chris! I mention morels & people
say "oh, did you see that show on the travel channel?"!! Good on ya! Follow
your bliss.... to morel country!
May 19th, 2008: Hugh, No sooner did the morals peter out here in central Ohio than the other late spring/ early summer mushrooms started. I found a HUGE batch of perfect, fresh chicken today on a cut stump (tree too old to identify) and one agaricus arvensis. Other mushrooms that are up now include agrocybe praecox, coprinus micaceus (also one or two coprinus comatus), and various others
May 19th, 2008:Chris just getting started up here in western mass
May 20th, 2008:kristina black morel - general location = Roslyn,WA Growing Conditions = found under poplar trees,in dry soil in what seemed like old grass,dirt and garden waste. We found about 16. The weekend before that we found in the same area 40. I left one small one at that time and it was still there double in size. They have been hard to find so far in our other usual places around Eastern Wa, Lots of snow this winter.
May 20th, 2008:Kevin DeCarlo yellow morel - general location = Northern Illinois Jo Daviess County and Winnebago County Growing Conditions = Under dead elms mostly on north facing hills
May 20th, 2008:Eric and Stephanie yellow morel - general location = MOUNT HOOD OREGON Growing Conditions = IN LOWER FOOTHILLS, NEAR GARDEN EDGE Additional Comments = FOUND 19 THIS YEAR--SLIGHTLY FEWER THAN LAST YEAR
May 20th, 2008:Hi Chris, Just wanted to say what a Wonderful Morel Season we are having here in the north! Seems to be a bit later than normal, but the extra moisture and cool temps have them popping!! Found first find about 35 greys on May 7, another batch 5 days later May 12 and the Motherlode on Sunday May 18th! Found mostly under dead or dying elms, and on grassy hills. Motherlode mostly large yellows 7-8", 30 or so large ones under one tree. Excited to see such a good crop this year! Lots to share with others who have never tried the delicious morels!! Morelmaiden Sue - Plymouth, MI
May 20th, 2008:yakima DAN morel-other - general location = columbia george Growing Conditions = in buck brush Additional Comments = going picking today
May 20th, 2008:TINA HOFFMAN yellow morel - general location = AN OLD APPLE ORCHARD Growing Conditions = LOWLANDS NEAR A STREAM Additional Comments = FOUND ON MAY 10 ELEVEN LARGE YELLOWS-SEVERAL WERE OVER 10 INCHES.
May 20th, 2008:Bill yellow morel - general location = Hampton Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, near pittsburgh pa Growing Conditions = steep hillside, under oaks
May 20th, 2008: don zubke yellow morel - general location = barneveld wi Growing Conditions = dead elms on ridge tops Additional Comments = found about five pounds, vegetation is taking over look out for poison ivy!!!!
May 20th, 2008: I met a buddy in SW Iowa, Randy J, hunted 3 hours, the ones we found were shoe leather dry. It is over in this area, must move northward. Chris m
May 21st, 2008: Timothy Bien grey morel - general location = Osceola County, Michigan. Growing Conditions = The nights have been cool, mid 30's a little rain and the ground was still moist. We were in some hardwoods maple and white ash...right of a two track I spotted a greymorel...my wife and I stopped and we found 4 greys and 13 yellow..2-4" enough for a snack.
May 21st, 2008:Jack Gaff grey morel - general location = Baraga county, Mi. UP 5/21/08 Growing Conditions = Uplands, mixedwoods Additional Comments = Finally; they're just starting up here.
May 21st, 2008:Steven W. Smith yellow morel - general location = Maiden Rock, WI Growing Conditions = Old Elms
May 21st, 2008: Here one of the coolest schrooms I have ever found. 5 growing from the same stem! I tried to up load it with the report on may 19th, but it must not have made it. I wanted you to be able to share this with all of the people who enjoy this site as much as me.
May 21st, 2008: Randy Jones, Bill Wolfe and Chris Matherly found about 20 pounds of Morels near Winona, Minnesota.
May 22nd, 2008:riverwalker black morel - general location = MI Berrien Growing Conditions = old orchards dead elms
May 22nd, 2008:Chris, Thanks for allowing me to tag along today and thanks for the morel bag. I had fun today and it was nice to finally meet you. I went down the Trout Valley road after I left you. The road I usually take has a bridge that is closed so I didn't get to where I wanted to go. However, it was much lower (more mosquitos) and I did find two morels. I left after two guys from Missori came and were looking as well. I then went to Frontenac State Park right off Hwy 61, not the upper park. We looked there last week and I went to areas that were producing last week and found 8 very fresh morels. Headed for home after that. Hope you all did well today and you found the area where it rained. Let me know! Thanks again, Judy J
Judy, thanks for letting me tag along! It was my pleasure to finally meet you. You were probably one of my first TEN Members! About time we meet up! LOL! I had fun! By the way folks, Judy and I found about three pounds in SE Minnesota!- Chris M
May 23rd, 2008:pcat verpa bohemica- general location = washington,chelan county Growing Conditions = along the river,sunny hillsides a medium altitude Additional Comments = My son and daughter-in-law and I went out last friday(16th)to Cle Ellum and had a look around the rivers and they were really roaring.Found a few morels as well as 4 verpa's.We then went up to about 3600ft level and the snow patches were still numerous.We didn't go to the top of the Blewett because it is still too cold.We managed to find a total of 12 morels.Since then the weather has gotten cold again and if it wasn't snowing on monday up on some of the passes then it must have been popcorn.We will have a later season.We usually go to the 4k+ by this weekend but not this yr.Go to www.wsdot.wa.gov and click on Traffic and Roads.Camera's all over the state.Snow on most of the passes still.I am considering taking my skis and hike up and ski down a few times.No lift tickets,lol.Chinook Pass isn't opening until next week because of deep snow.If you want to chill some drinks or make snow cones,this is your opportunity.I'll report if we have any better luck this weekend.pcat
May 23rd, 2008: jen molnau grey morel - general location = glenwood mn Growing Conditions = south facing low swampy area ....higer ground had lots of dead elms but too dry....90 grays between 2-4 inches some were moist others were starting to dry out a bit.....Additional Comments = only enough for a meal cuz we fed 9 people....none of my other good spots have any yet its too dry ....hopefully we get some rain soon .....
May 23rd, 2008: Mitchell Paul yellow morel - general location = St. Paul, MN River bottom, south facing slope around oaks. Not finding many its been a cold spring, does that affect the growing cycle? Yes, the weird spring is not favorable, and it was dry for too many locations at the wrong time. Good luck! - Chris m
May 24th, 2008:This has been the best season.Found these two in Omaha nebraska .under large elm tree growing on dead wood by river, May 24 2008 four weeks running finding mushrooms.
May 24th, 2008: Fourpaws yellow morel - general location = Wisconsin, Pierce County Growing Conditions = Mostly there are no morels because it's been too dry and cold. BUT.........I found a mother load (5-1/2#s) under one big ole dead elm on a North facing steep slope with a lot of undergrowth that seems to help the ground retain moisture.
May 24th, 2008:Chris,Found today 5/24/08,northwest Massachusetts,in the hardwoods.
May 24th, 2008:
Keith Kazianka
yellow morel - general location = Iron Mountain,
Michigan. Dickinson County in Michigan's Upper Penninsula. Growing
Conditions = old apple orchard.
Additional Comments = the morels here are about 10 days late this year due to
our weather.
May 24th, 2008:Found 3 nice yellows near State College, PA. Next to ashes, elms along river in a small valley. Up to about 100 for the season ~Tim
May 24th, 2008: Sue yellow morel - general location = New York, Schoharie County Growing Conditions = Lowlands
May 25th, 2008: guess i'll end the season with the biggest. Dave W- Wayne CTY Indiana
May 25th, 2008:
South western ontario (between London and Chatham,near the 401 Hwy,norht side) my friend and I found 2 pounds of what look like giant morels, inside edge(2 to 10 feet in) of small bush(6 acres) surrounded by farm land We just cut a dead tree all dry up without bark down at this same spot 2-months ago (I wonder if the impact of the tree falling down woke up the mycelium?) This is the Best website Ever! We love every part of it! Keep up the Awsome Work Chris!!! Francois and Greg
May 26th, 2008:
impcdc, Chris, Found these 5/25/08,
Albany County NY. Thanks.
May 26th, 2008: Still finding lots of Morels near Boyne/ Petoskey, Michigan. Even still finding a few blacks and Grays, and some huge "Bigfoots". - Chris M
May 27th, 2008: steve de pew yellow morel - general location = About 3 miles out of Kendallville,In. Noble Growing Conditions = All around the woods. Additional Comments = Found about 4 1/2 lbs 5/25 and went today 5/26 and done good, all fresh yellow ones. So keep looking........
May 27th, 2008: travis yellow morel - general location = North of Spokane, WA, Ferry County, near Newport Growing Conditions = under a dense pine forest, near a stream on a steep hill.
May 28th, 2008: Stephanie black morel - general location = Gem County, Idaho. Found only 4 on May 25, 2008. Growing Conditions = On a western facing hillside in pine needles. Lots of corals though. Additional Comments = Looks like it is about a week off really.
May 28th, 2008:muriel
lefevre grey morel - general location =
Cadyville, town of Plattsburgh, NY Growing
Conditions = My camp's lawn, some hardwoods but more conifers on outside edge
Additional Comments = Just starting this wonderful hobby!!
May 28th, 2008: Chris, I am reporting on two different morel finds in Wisc. from last week. My mouse for my computer was not working for a few days so I am late at reporting. May 20 my daughter and I found 3 esculentas and 2 half frees in southern trempeleau county. May 20 my co-worker found 2 deliciocias on his lawn in Central Marathon county. jeanielp
May 28th, 2008: putski yellow morel Other kind of mushroo0 = greymorel,and a few oysters Where did you find them- general location = i live in siren wisconsin,the wife and went out yesterday on may 26th took our atv and got on a railroad bed and found them on both sides of the old tracks they were running east and west ,we found 43 yesterday and 18 today they ere all nice and big a cpl were as big as a beer can!!! can hardly wait to get out there and find some more!!!any ways the lilac bushes are just flowering so i guess that mite be a good sign,,we had 35 degrees this morning and it's been a cold spring Growing Conditions = all were growing around dead elms some were in rich soil and mossy ,and a few were in the rock bed and dry Additional Comments = thanks alot chris, for this great site!!! good luck to all shroomers!!
May 28th, 2008:
Holly - general location = May 25, Gaylord, MI.
Great day. In less than an hour found 15 very large
yellows, 10 large greys, 4 blacks. Ramps were abundant, which was fine
with me! Had limited time, unfortunately.This was a week (or two) later than
normal for us but still had a blast. The rain that night (Sunday) must have made
Monday a stellar day, but we had plans in Petoskey!!! Would have liked to have
have met you, Chris, as we were in Boyne a few times over the holiday. Holly
Growing Conditions = Along an old logging trail.....
May 29th, 2008:
Paul & Trudy Gaub black morel - general
location = We found 344 morels in sandy soil near
several dead elms on May 22nd in south central Minnesota.
Growing Conditions = Most of the morels were growing around 1 dead elm with
clusters containing as many as 12 mushrooms. Went back 6 days later with no
rain and found 33 yellows, quite large, approximately 4 to 5 inches in height.
May 29th, 2008:Found along east slopes of cascades. black morels. 10-12 lbs worth. north/northwest facing slope in a 1 yr old prescribed burn area.
May 29th, 2008:Hi Chris, The early summer mushrooms are now starting in central Ohio. I found some more nice chicken, some xerulas, and a perfect agaricus campestris here in Columbus, and we also saw some amanitas, ganodermas, mycenas and russulas down in Hocking Hills. If this year is half as good for summer mushrooms as it was for morels here, it should be a very good season. -- hugh, Columbus, OH
May 29th, 2008:Dillan, Black morel - general location = Saskatchewan Central Pasture Growing Conditions = found them all over in places i never thought went against all i learnt, so far maybe 5 lbs am going out asap
May 30th, 2008: dave constantine yellow morel - general location = west central wisconsin Growing Conditions = dead elms and ash, Additional Comments = they are a little late this year--- but what a great year it is so far!!! my son , adam with an average daily find. dave
May 30th, 2008: Hello, Chris. I would like to report that I have spotted my first Chanterelle of 2008 here in Monroe County, MS. It was growing in my front yard of all places. So far I have only seen one, but this one was growing in the same location where I found a few of them last summer. It was located in a shady, mossy area under a large oak tree. I have checked some of my other usual chanterelle spots and I have not seen anything else popping up yet. We have had lots of rain lately, and I'm thinking I should be seeing more of them and possibly some black trumpets in about a week. Scott F.
May 30th, 2008:
Gayle T. grey morel - general location =
Northern Rockies in Montana Growing Conditions =
Under snow brush next to melting snow, steep slopes, grizzsly bear country!
Additional Comments = It's been a late season. We've recently received alot of
moisture, and its beginning to heat up nicely. We found 57 yellow and gray
morels last weekend. This weekend I know, will be unreal, given the
conditions! Just wish I wasn't working, and could go today!!
May 30th, 2008: Hi Chris, We're still finding some nice chicken and oysters here in central Ohio. I didn't used to find chicken here until June-July (and then again in late summer-fall), but for the last few years, I've been finding it in May. -- hugh, columbus, OH
May 31st, 2008: John yellow morel - general location = Southeast Idaho Growing Conditions = Under the Cottonwoods, Riverbotton Habitat Additional Comments = I only found 2 Yellows but I was very excited to see them. Even happier when I cooked and ate them. Delicious
May 31st, 2008: I went out with a friend on may 29th and found about 7 lbs total.We went to chelan county,washington state.Blewett Pass.Not a very good amount with the gas running at $4 per gal.If the weather stays warm,not hot and the rain comes on regular basis we will get mushrooms comming up thru june.I hope your ontario foray is successfull.pcat
May 31st, 2008: Kim Olson black morel - general location = Upper Michigan, Crystal Falls, Iron County Growing Conditions = Sandy soil light poplars (Aspen) along two track woods roads and on and along deer trails. Additional Comments = We have had only a couple of warmish days and a few good rains. Found a few "blacks" each day after a hard rain. No whites as of yet. Two large puff balls though! They all were great.
May 31st, 2008; Hi. I found these in the woods behind my house. Are these morels? I’m totally ignorant of wild mushrooms, but these sure look like morels. I appreciate your comments.
You have Morels! Enjoy! - Chris M
May 31st, 2008: Richard Hill oyster mushroom - general location = Homerville Ohio medina county May 31/08 Growing Conditions = Buried wood in a old excavation area
August 15th, 2008: A big "Hey Ya'll", to Chris, from Debbie D. in Paducah, Ky: I am attaching pics of my home, which I've been in for almost 2 years now, and the strange clusters of tall, thin, tubular, black "somethings" that I found protruding from the ground, underneath it. I've ventured into the dark "underworld" beneath the floor of my double-wide, several times since we moved in, but this is the first time I've ever seen these. Just a few little tid-bits of info that may assist in the identification: -First found on August 11, 2008, they definitely were not there the last time I ventured into the darkness, last summer-My home is mostly surrounded by farm land (corn last year, beans this year) -We had a lot of rain this past spring, but we are not in a flood plane (although we are surrounded by land that is, for several miles) -My home sits on a concrete block foundation -Very dark, but only mildly moist soil underneath the home I would really like to know what these clusters of black, tubular fungi are, that my family and I are co-habitating with. I've seen many different types of "shrooms" throughout my rural / country life, but never anything like this. They actually look like they belong on the floor of the ocean. -Oh yeah! We do have a 1000 gal. septic tank which was emptied this spring / early summer. It was FULL! The tank is probably 30+ years old and very deep in the ground, and in close proximity to where the entry to the "underworld" is, and where the clusters are that I could see. O.K.! I thank you in advance for any info you may have on these strange things, and I apologize for taking up your time with any useless info that I probably included. Thank-you very much! & happy Shroom hunting! Debbie D.
I think it is "Dead Man's Fingers", I will see what David F thinks: -Chris m
David W. Fischer
Mycologist, Author, Photographer, Musician
August 18th, 2008:
sfl, lobster & yellow
chanterelle - general location = i found one lobster and one chanterelle
out on the Oregon Coast on Saturday. Growing
Conditions = In the duff
Additional Comments = looks like the season is beginning. i heard that one of
the farmer's markets also had chanterelles
August 19th, 2008: mike struble, puffballs - general location = west milford,new jersey, Growing Conditions = mostly higlands,puffballs in fields
August 19th, 2008: Puffballs, yellow staining Agaricus, and green Gilled Lepiotas here in Central Georgia- Chris M
August 20th, 2008:
horace Sheffield, lactarius - general location = mushroom season in
full swing in Flagstaff, Arizona....lobsters,white kings, king boletes,
chanterelles, lactarius deliciosis, oysters, agaricus, cauliflowers, leccinum
(aspen boletes), cocollis (amanitas trolypderum?),russulas, (some shellfish),
puffballs, & LOTS more!!.......Growing Conditions = from the ponderosa forest @
7500 feet up to treeline above 11,000 feet
Additional Comments = good wet summer, moisture widespread and over a long time
period.....
August 20th, 2008: It's been really dry in central OH, but we did find some nice mushrooms down in Hocking Hills area. We found several huge patches of cinnabar chanterelles and some gorgeous hedgehogs (hydum repandum), including two monsters. -- hugh, Columbus, OH
August 20th, 2008: I came across this in my
backyard, growing off a stump root. I showed this picture to my friend geoff
pfeifer who couldn't identify it, but
suggested I send this to you. Daryl Roberts
Wurtsboro, NY (mid hudson,
catskills)
This is the Black Staining Polypore, and is edible. - Chris M
August 21st, 2008: From: holly kaye
This is the Black Staining Polypore, and is edible. - Chris M
August 21st, 2008: I just found you!!! So glad. I have been yearning for info on when others find their mushrooms. On July 30 I found a few porcinis and lots of chanterelles at 10000 feet in northern New Mexico. No pictures right now but I look forward to participating on this website!! I am going to be near Ashland, Oregon September 7,8,and 9. Can anyone give me some advice and/or info on a guide? I only know how to find these cute little buggers in the Rocky Mountains. What can be found then? I will join your club as soon as my hubby helps me choose which membership. So glad you exist! Gloria McFarland
August 24th, 2008: Hi Chris, found these while trying to find some boletes, I think they are chicken mushroom. The other I believe is some sort of oyster, but can't find it in my book. What do you think? Daddy
August 25th, 2008: it smells very buttery and mushroomy?
August 26th, 2008: KYLE LEE MCKNIGHT, lobster mushroom - general location = wilmington, north carolina, new hanover county in the myrtle grove district in between wrightsville beach and carolina beach Growing Conditions = in moist lowlands, it is on the soundside in a rich moist yards near myrtle and pine trees with lots of moss Additional Comments = i am familiar with this type of mushroom in the culinary world, but have never been able to see wild. wondering if it is possible, they are dense and colored very similar to the lobster mushroom and are coming up abundantly around my home and surrounding are. i do have pictures and will submit if you would like. thanks...k.l.m
August 27th, 2008: Cheryl Whobrey - general location = State of Missouri, City of Chesterfield, Growing Conditions = shaded areas under trees in deep mulch Additional Comments = This mushroom is about 4" tall and has orange on it and the top is brown sticky and if you dig it up there are white pods (4-8) under the roots and they are filled with the next mushroom
-You probably have:
http://morelmushroomhunting.com/mutinus_caninus.htm
- Chris M
August 27th, 2008: Kay Zellers,
stink horns - general location =
Cambria,
Illinois in Williamson County 8/27/08 Growing Conditions = in a flowerbed
coming up through the mulch, some under the leaves of a hosta It is a woodsy
yard on the west side of the house in pretty much all day shade
Additional Comments = I stumbled onto your website when I googled "orange,
tubular, fall mushrooms". It is pretty neat. So were the mushrooms. Some were
still cone shaped and some had opened into the tubes. They weren't too fragrant
but not really horribly "stinky"
August 28th, 2008: kristina s, i dont know and i
cant find it anywhere. - general location = on navajo indian reservation, in
arizona Growing Conditions = under brush, growing out of moss, only on
hillsides, Additional Comments = they have no smell and taste like a cotton
ball...no flavor. deep purple veins, and bruising dark dark purple as soon as
you touch them. -I would need to see photos.... Chris M
August 29th, 2008: Hello, I have a question for you. We recently moved to
Hawthorne, Florida (it is in Northern Florida, close to Gainesville) and have
noticed mushrooms around that look a lot like Boletus Edulis to us. However,
would like to get a professional opinion. The ones that I find in the woods are
growing on the ground, often under lots of pine needles (you can see these
towards the bottom of the first picture). The ones that are found growing in
more sunny areas are more towards the top of the first picture. We believe the
mushroom in the second picture is the same species, but it had already started
to rot on top (smelled horrible). These kind of mushrooms are everywhere out
here. We are surrounded by hundreds of acres of land where you can look out
and see different types of fungi growing in every different direction. I
really appreciate all of your help and time. -Rick Cleveland
August 30th, 2008: Found In city park Iowa City Iowa under Old Oaks in the grass....Thats a 20oz Mt Dew -Fudtone
August 30th, 2008:
Greg Vandervelde,chanterelle
unkown tiny orange chanterelles - general location = Lexington county, SC
Growing Conditions = Moist mossy mostly oaks Additional Comments = We gathered 2
pounds of Peach Colored Chanterelles and in addition found these little guys
growing straight from soil or moss. They are very delicate and smooth not
velvety at all and do not glow in the dark. The largest one was an inch across.
The "gills" while deeper than the Chantrelles are forked. They do have an ever
so thin layer of whitish flesh when sliced in two.
August 30th, 2008: Chris; Sorry to bother you on a holiday weekend, but I found about two pounds of "Tuber Canaliculatum" truffles today and I'm really curious as to their worth in my kitchen. There is no doubt in my mind as to what they are but I can't find much info on them. Thanks again for your top notch Organization. Regard from upstate New York Steve (is a Fungi) Fleury
September 1st, 2008: Mark Landa, other Not sure - was hoping you knew? - general location = Found in Phoenix - found at the base of a Mequite tree where drip water system provides moisture daily .. some sun - not much though. Need photos- Chris M
September 1st, 2008: Dear Chris, I found a huge ring of mushrooms at a nearby church. I'm sending you some photos and hope you can tell me what they are. They smelled very good in the car as I drove home. I don't know if they are edible or not. I'm sending them via my Kodak EasyShare because that's the only way that I know to send photos. Thank you. Joy Morse
These are poisonous, http://morelmushroomhunting.com/chlorophyllum_molybdites.htm -Chris M
September 1st, 2008:
Greg Vandervelde, Ganoderma
lucidum, AKA Reishi Mushroom - general location =
Cayce, Lexington County, SC
Growing Conditions = Mossy mixed Oak lowlands Additional Comments = I identified
these by picture only
September 3rd, 2008: We just got back from our annual trip to Vermont, where we found a lot of nice mushrooms. Vermont had a very wet summer (unlike Ohio), so there was a quite lot of interesting stuff up. Highlights included: about a half dozen very nice Boletus edulis; roughly 2 dozen lobsters; dozens of hedgehogs (Hericium repandum); at least 6 large fruitings of comb tooth (3 types of Hericium in all), many chanterelles, scabers stalks (various leccinums), buling bolete, good lactarius, thousands of sheep polypores, and various others. It was a nice change from the dry dust bowl of Ohio over the last 2 months-- hugh
September 6th, 2008:
Dear Chris, I visited your web site looking to identify mushrooms that have been
popping up all summer in my vegetable garden. I thought they were interesting
and quite beautiful until my Carin terrier decided to eat them. After $150.00
spent at the vet and a sleepless night with a vomiting dog, I don't appreciate
their beauty any more! Maggie survived with an upset stomach and tests could not
find any liver or kidney damage.
What is so strange is that this dog NEVER eats anything....and now lives to hunt
them out.I spend every morning looking for them before she is allowed in the
yard. They have been popping up since July only in my vegetable garden. A
neighbor and my vet mentioned they have seen them in their flower beds this
year. This is the first time I have seen them. I spend quality time in my yard,
so I would have noticed them last year. They sometimes smell "earthy", but not
always. The stalk is spongy looking with the off white to orange colors from
bottom to top. The cap has wet brown goo on top.They come out of an egg sack
looking thing with white roots. What are they? How can I eliminate them from my
garden?
Georgene E Wenrich,
Reading, PA
September 7th, 2008: Hi Chris....... I went out yesterday and found these at about 9000 ft elevation in the White Mountains of Arizona. As you can see in photo #1 the Chants are doing well, photo #2 of Lobsters, #3 is of a nice patch of Honeys, #4 is False Morel (unusual for this area at this time of year), #5 is a nice batch of King Bolete buttons, #6 is of Oysters, #7 is an Aspen Bolete, #8 are Shaggy Manes and #9 is of some Lobsters that I decided to keep. The area that I hunt in is in Northeastern Arizona in Apache County. When I tell people that I am finding about 10 wild edibles in Arizona they don't believe me. These mushrooms come on starting in July and last until mid September depending on when the Monsoon rains start and end. I also find morels in mid April to mid May in burn sites. I hope to find some Morels in logging sites that I am watching next year. You have a great site! Dan in Show Low Arizona.
September 8th, 2008: Patrick Harvey, Lactarius indigo - general location = Weldon Springs, Missouri Growing Conditions = Under cedar trees in oak forest
September 9th, 2008:
t. Hoover,need Identification - general location =
Centralia,Illinois (south central area) Growing
Conditions = stump of an oak
Additional Comments = I believe that these are the same as others found in open
sunny grassy areas,in shade undertrees in the leaves...ect. They are in clusters
of tens to hundreds EVERYWHERE here on this day 9/9/2008. I can send more, I am
spore printing now... Near a lake but high up; there are mole trails near
some, mostly clay soil with decomposing pine, oak, ash, maple, sevreal
more...many dogs in the neighborhood, lots of birds, squirrels, chipmunks,
racoons, owls, and many more. Very natural. Need to see
pics- Chris M
September 10th, 2008: Can you put a name to this? up this week in back yard
September 11th, 2008: Connie O. chicken mushroom - general location = Alaska ,,,,,,,,,,,,Thorne Bay,,,,,,,,,,,,Growing Conditions = Growing on and down and dead rotting log, near my fishing hole! Additional Comments = I would like to get in contact with other people in Southeast Alaska that hunt for Morels and others. I have never found one here yet, Iam sure just not looking in the right place. Don,t get many fires here.
September 12th, 2008: Nichole, oyster - general location = Fairfax, VA Growing Conditions = on trees mostly fallen near a creek. Lots of lichens around too and many other mushroom groups.
September 13th, 2008: Sorry about the file names, my son was 'helping'. Can you tell me what kind of mushroom this is and are they edible? Tim Gowins
September 13th, 2008: Good Afternoon. I have a TON of these mushrooms growing on some of the big huge decaying tree stumps in my yard. I'm curious to know what they are. I'd also like to make sure they aren't poisenous (although I already told the kids they are) because I have young kids and there are sooooooo many of these things. Thanks Signed Mom Blogger
September 13th, 2008: Chris, I have these growing in my ground covers, where I recently took down all the old aspens.They sure smell like morels, but I'm not a mushroom hunter, so caution first. Not to mention it's not spring! What do you think? Thanks for looking! Chuck Baglo Westminster, CO
September 14th, 2008: We finally got some real rain after 2 solid months of zero moisture, and a bunch of things are coming up now. There are lots of agaricus campestris, purple-spored puffballs and other yard mushrooms in our neighborhood. We also found two large batches of aborted entolomas and ringed honey mushrooms, along with oysters, chanterelles and gilled boletes at Mohican S.P. Hopefully all this rain will mean a good season for hen of the woods, or at least better than last year's terrible season -- hugh, Columbus, OH
September 14th, 2008:
cary, oyster - general
location = Raleigh, NC at least 25 kinds of
different shroomso on my property - maybe more. huge oyster(maybe) on a tree -
not sure. but a huge bolete about 10" across which turned to black mud the next
day also skull mushrooms(like a pufball)
Growing Conditions = grass, on hardwood trees Additional Comments = great site!
September 14th, 2008: Hi Chris, I found your site today when I went searching for a possible identity for these mushrooms. I’ve found morels in my tiny suburban yard, so I thought I’d see if these are also edible. They smell so good I’d hate to miss out on something great. Attached are small images, I have full size ones if you’d like. Thanks in advance for any assistance! Found: Sept 14, 2008, Gaithersburg, Montgomery County, MD, USA. Suburban backyard, topsoil has been amended but not lately, in mostly shady area, under a maple tree canopy, directly on the ground (not on trunk, stump, or roots) Cap: Fairly uniform beige/fawn color, exactly blends in with fallen maple and birch leaves, slightly velvety or kid leather feeling surface, not hairy or scaly. Curl up and toward center. Gills: well defined, lighter than cap, not easily separated from cap, slightly forked at cap edge. Stem: slender, not perfectly straight, fibrous with fibers spiraling slightly along the length, not hollow. Flesh: creamy white, slightly spongy looking, Scent: I don't have any experience with wild or even exotic mushrooms... to me these smell delicious... like mild grocery store button mushroom, but not as strong and hints of butter. Age at photo: No idea... I just noticed them today. Recent Weather: 80’s for most of this week with rain on Tues. Dipped down to mid-70’s and drizzly on Fri. Sat and Sun (today) both 90, sunny, humidity close to 50%. Thanks in advance for any assistance! Lauren Brush
September 14th, 2008: Chris I found a couple mushrooms new to me that I’m having a little trouble making a positive ID on. One is some kind of bolete the pictures of it are a little dark so not sure if they will help. They were both found in second growth Douglas fir around SW Washington. The boletes were numerous with cracked patterns on the cap. The stems were a maroon brownish color tapering to white or yellow with yellow deep pores on the underside of the cap that bruised blue. I picked a few for spore prints and found they don’t keep well. They were mostly mush when I got them home. I also found a shaggy mane which was a first for me. The second one that is giving me trouble is a lobster I believe but it looks slightly different from the pictures I’ve seen. I know the lobster is a parasite on another mushroom, so do some just look different? Let me know what you think. Rich Schneider
September 15th, 2008: I have found some great mushrooms the past couple of weeks here in Central Georgia. The biggest fruiting of Ceasar's Mushrooms, I have ever seen! Many other interesting Amanitas. Here are a few pics... Chris M
September 16th, 2008: Peter K, bolete - general location = Arizona-White Mountains-Greenlee County, Growing Conditions = Ponderosa Pine Forest
September 16th, 2008: Hi Chris, how are things? Yah, we finally got some real rain as well here in Indianapolis, IN. A. campestris, honeys, oyster, purple-spored and gem-studded puffballs, chicken, and immense Lepiota americana were the highlights of today's finds. Only one hen so far and I am monitoring it's growth. Good luck to all, Chris O.
September 16th, 2008: I went out to one of my Black Trumpet spots today in Central Georgia, and yep, they were up! 2 pounds in 30 minutes! - Chris M
September 17th, 2008: Hi, Last summer about this time I had these pop up in the garden in front of my home in Cumming, GA. It was after the soil in this garden had been disturbed to put in irrigation pipes and I had spread new cedar mulch down (not sure what the source was). In the past few weeks they have popped up again. I can usually smell them before I see them. They stink! I'm guessing they are poisonous. Thanks for your help to identify them. Cindy Michaels
The reason they stink Cindy, is because they are Stinkhorns! Not poisonous either! - Chris M
http://morelmushroomhunting.com/phallus_revenelii.htm
September 18th, 2008: Chris, I found this puffball in my back yard and it measures about 6" across. I tried to identify it and it looks like the sculptured puffball but according to the book these are only found in the western states in the mountains. What do you think it is? I've attached 3 pictures below of the same mushroom. Hope things are going well for you. Thanks, Jim Finley
You have: http://morelmushroomhunting.com/calvatia_cyathiformis.htm , Chris M
September 18th, 2008: found some of these in the yard next to the cedar trees, they look edible but I don't know. ...Dave...
September 18th, 2008: We checked out Mohican S.P. today and found some nice fall mushrooms: millions of aborted entolomas, a patch of blewits, a few chanterelles, many ringed honey mushrooms, oysters, and a couple of boletes. In the first photo you can see the un-aborted and aborted forms of the entoloma growing out of the same base. Our neighborhood is also filled with ringless honey mushrooms right now, but I don't care for their flavor as much as the ringed ones. -- hugh, Columbus, OH
September 19th, 2008:
Ok I admit it. I a probably to the point of obsessed. But I was walking
in the Chagrin River park and scanning the woods
for mushrooms because it's that time of year. I took a little path and walked
along a dry creekbed and a Hen-of-the-woods just
about jumped out at me. Then I saw her sisters all around the base of the same
gigantic old tree. This baby must be edging up on 10 lbs! I only had one bag
so I grabbed it and will go back for the others Saturday morning. I have been
excited about morels for years but I am beginning to think Fall is the better
time for mushrooms.
This only adds to my geekieness because i will because i will be talking about
mushrooms for about 6 months of the year rather than the usual 2.
You have to admit, it's a pretty huge mushroom. Yes! That's all one mushroom!
Jen
September 19th, 2008: Think these are chanterelles either small or cinnibar is that right?. found in raleigh on my property, found 6 kinds of boletes today and some 12" parrisols! cary brief
September 19th, 2008: Hello Chris: I watch a show on TV (Modern Marvels) about mushrooms. I went outside today while looking down found these huge mushrooms. The mushroom is 10 inches across. Found more even bigger. Brownish tan on top and the truck is white inside. Underneath has a great amount of pores and brownish tan in color. Strong smelling mushroom. What kind of mushroom is this? Can you eat this? I never knew that this is a big business. You guys must love mushrooms! Attach file pictures of the mushroom. Have a great day! Thank you, Andrea Small
September 19th, 2008: I took a picture of these mushrooms in August 2008 near McKinley Village Lodge, Denali National Park, Alaska. Would appreciate the names to put in my scrapbook. Are they edible or poisonous? Thanks, Dianne Cassell
September 19th, 2008: Found these today on a dead Red Oak stump, are they edible? David Warner, Richmond, Indiana
September 20th, 2008: hi chris... a little bit of a debate on this id. i assumed quickly it is a jackolantern. am i wrong? we had a great flush of mushrooms last week. 2 weeks after a long 4" of soaking rain. - Casper Chatanooga
September 20th, 2008: Chris I found some nice chicken mushrooms while elk hunting in SW Washington. I know people eat them but have not heard anything about how they are prepared. Do you have any good recipes for them? The weather has been pretty good here on the Westside of St. Helens. Not too hot or cold and starting to get some rain. You should have a good Foray at Saint Helens in a couple weeks. I’ll try to join you next year. Rich Schneider
September 21st, 2008: chris, i'm wondering whether all of these are Honeys. The ones on the right clearly, and I'm wondering if the mushrooms on the left are just more mature Honeys that have lost some of their gold color, and the caps have become inverted? Is this characteristic of Honeys? What about the two in the upper left? thanks, Mark
September 21st, 2008:
Shelly McVicker, orange tubular (looks like baby
carrot) - general location = Maplewood, Mn, Growing
Conditions = Under black oak, growing in mulch, Additional Comments = Flies are
attracted to these ugly things and they smell bad.
You probably have this one, a stinkhorn mushroom:
http://morelmushroomhunting.com/mutinus_caninus.htm
Chris Matherly
September 23rd, 2008:
Ron--Southern, Missouri,
Think these are Honey Mushrooms - general location = In My Yard--and Others
Neighbors yards.
Mountain Grove, Missouri--Wright County Growing Conditions = They are just
growing all over no paticular Place
September 24th, 2008: Hey Chris.......thought you and David might have a clue on this one Its not an Oyster....as I am well versed in the local varieties here. Plus it did not smell like one and Oysters would have melted down or gotten mushy with the rain we have had recently. Its got a 20 inch wide cap...a 1 3/4" thick stipe....creamy yellow gills .Somewhat of a pimpely textured skin on the cap. It was past its prime for printing. I have shown the remaining un-picked caps on an oak tree at Truman Lake .......Missouri The boy knows his shrooms...but he is clueless about this one. Thanks ....Jason Lemaster
Hypsizygus? - Chris M
David W.
Fischer
September 26th, 2008: pat glenn, white, curved with brown head (looks like a penis) - general location = front yard, oxnard, CA, Additional Comments = Neighbors have never seen anything like it either. Lives one day and wilts, looks like a dead stinky part of an entral after it wilts. Unbelievable. Sounds like a common Stinkhorn, several are shown on this page above...-Chris M
September 27th, 2008: Hi guys! Even without a drop of rain, giant puffballs are exploding in and around the Indianapolis, IN area. We've seen 12 in the last couple days in neighborhood lawns and parks. We can only hope the hens will do the same. Chris O.
September 28th, 2008: Rockland, Massachusetts, this mushroom is bright orange like the color of a basketball. The mushrooms are growing in large clumps. They have just about doubled in size in 4 days. They are growing in mulch that was put around the base of the tree. Thank you Penny
September 28th, 2008:
Alexandria Figueroa, Man on Horseback -
general location = Centermoreland, PA, Growing
Conditions = Near ferns
Additional Comments = Found a beautiful Bollete as well.
September 29th, 2008: my dad keeps finding these coming up in his quansit building, still no rain, the woods is the dryest i've seen it, Dave W- Richmond Indiana
I think they are Coprinus, a relative to the Shaggy Mane, which is edible. I am also going to let David Fischer look at these! - Chris M
September 29th, 2008:
George C Maybe Brick
Tops? - general location = Turner, Maine,
Growing Conditions = on hard wood stumps in wet areas
Additional Comments = I will email a couple photos to accompany report
Yes, you have Brick Tops. - Chris M
September 29th, 2008: tish Oysters and Lion's Mane - general location = Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, Growing Conditions = On Downed Cherry Tree for the Oyster and another downed Hardwood for the Lion's Mane, Not sure which. Additional Comments = After 3 days of gray, misty, rainy weather I went out looking and found these.
September 29th, 2008: S. Johnson Fried Chicken - general location = Estacada, Oregon
September 29th, 2008:
rick vagt - general location = Hi Chris I think i found a fungus it was
in rich soil arond oak in the ground. ROCHESTER MINNESOTA.
Growing Conditions = These resemble very small intestines. They are completely
white. Abuot 1 to 2 inches around they are rough on the outside.They are in rich
soil in damp hillside. Can you help identify these .they look good enough to try
to eat .THANKS RICK VAGT Additional Comments = Iremember seeing these on your
site before.thanks rick vagt.
September 29th, 2008: We finally got some rain last night and, sure enough, a hen popped up at my earliest spot, a great big old oak in a local park. Hopefully we'll get some more rain soon -- hugh, Columbus, OH
September 29th, 2008: Hi Chris, well my secret hen spot in Columbus OH made up for last year's dissapointing production. I saw nearly 50 hens today! I would estimate seeing between 100-200 lbs! I took home 25 beauties, left 10 or so that were too old and massive, also left 10 or so babies to grow, plus dropped off 30+ lbs to Hugh and Nancy. All in a couple hours. Many more honey-holes were left unchecked. Also scored a few giant hericium. Will be back soon. Big, I mean really big oaks and maples were key in an isolated area. Good luck to all, Chris O.
September 30th, 2008: Chris, Found this puffball along a park trail in MI (Detroit area). 3.4 lbs. We found several more, although only 1-2 lbs each! We have been giving away all day to family and friends.The aborted entalomas, agaricus, and black staining polypores are everywhere…….
September 30th, 2008: Hi Chris, I found what I think is Laetiporus cincinnatus yesterday in open hardwood forest near Leesburg, VA. There was a dead oak tree nearby. Am I safe to chow down? Thanks, Bill
You are correct on the ID, enjoy! - Chris M
September 30th, 2008: Hi Chris, Just wanted you to know how much I enjoy your website. We found our first morels this past spring, just 40 ft from our back door and were able to correctly identify, thanks to you! Hopefully, there will be more next spring. We now have two dead elms, ( which is where they were discovered. I am attaching several pictures of some mushrooms that are in the exact same spot as the morels, at the foot of a dead elm stump. Any idea what they are? Poisonous? I would sure appreciate your feedback! Oh, we live in South Central Wisconsin, about 25 miles from the Illinois border. Thanks and have a wonderful day! Kindest Regards Deb
These are edible Mica Caps, http://morelmushroomhunting.com/coprinus_micaceus.htm -Chris M
October 1st, 2008: Hi Chris, I know you are a morel man but thought you'd like to see the 2 coral mushrooms Dad and I found down on the farm 2 days ago. If you ever get to Southerm Missouri stop by. Steve
October 1st, 2008: I found two very nice fresh hens today at a local park by a giant white oak that produces pretty much every year. I haven't had a chance to check my best spot yet, but it's looking like a pretty darn good year for them so far. -- hugh, Columbus, OH
October 1st, 2008: Chris, I need help with a positive I.D. I found these on a rotted Maple log, in an area where I pick Brick Caps, but rarely before Thanksgiving, plus the caps are usually redder. The gills are gray on young, darker as they age. Spore print is brown/purple, taste is not bitter. Please advise. Recent rains have the forest full of fungus, Slippery Jacks, Hericeums, Shaggy Manes, Oysters, Aborted Ent. Numerous Giant Puffballs, Chickens, Hen of the Woods & many I do not pick including some beautiful Amanitas. Thanks, Ed Chesko
October 1st, 2008: ben, hen of the woods - general location = clarksburg wv, Growing Conditions = base of a large oak
October 2nd, 2008: debbie marzullo, possible chicken - general location = found these in my backyard growing on a tree stump. I live in Algonquin, Illinois and found this right after lots of rain. I think this is a chicken but it is not the usual orange or yellow. Very creamy and white underneath. Very spongy and fresh. Growing Conditions = Growing at the back of my lot under trees facing north on large tree stump.
October 2nd, 2008: deb d, not sure - general location = wisconsin, rock county, Growing Conditions = in grass, next to a dead elm, right where we had morels in the spring
October 2nd, 2008: Tzvi Grossman, hen-of-the-woods - general location = Sharon, MA, Additional Comments = I found these in a spot under an oak that produces hen-of-the-woods every year. The two that have fruited so far are unusually small - I would guess that together they total less than 1 1/2 pounds.
October 2nd, 2008: Hi can you please help me identify the mushrooms in the enclosed photos- they are a lot like the oyster(pleurotus ostreatus) which I pick and enjoy but were not growing on a stump or log but on debris on the ground- and unlike the oyster have a central stalk. A fast reply would be appreciated as they were picked several days ago and I probably need to dry or freeze them if they are edible and worth eating Thanks Mike Paradise
October 2nd, 2008: We found another five perfect, fresh hens today, two on a cut oak stump and one on a very, very dead oak. I was worried the dry weather of the last month would be a problem, but I guess it was wet enough earlier this year that they're doing well. -- hugh, Columbus, OH
October 3rd, 2008: Hi Chris. I went out and gathered just over 6 pounds of Hens today. Would have had more, but my basket wasn't large enough. There is at least this much more in one place. Also, I found these clustered mushrooms. They look like ringless Honey's, but wanted to get an id before chowing down. The odd thing is, they were growing in huge clumps all over the yard where I gathered them. Pounds and pounds of them...everywhere. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks. Drew in Pierpont. Maitake was gathered from around the base of a HUGE Maple. Northeast Ohio.
Yes, they are Ringless Honey Mushrooms, cook well! - Chris M
October 4th, 2008: Hi Chris. I hope your kiling it in the Pacific NW. Lord knows I've got way too many shrooms on my hand..10.2.08's find was a pleasant surprise. My freind Ramiro and I saw around 30+ giant Herecium coralloides. Some he spotted the other day at a local park in Indianapolis IN. A few were as big as beach balls and deliciously fresh. One flush on downed beech and one on downed maple. Took nearly 40 lbs and left even more, Oh yeah, more hens as well. What a year for wild gourmet mushrooms! Good luck to all. Chris O.
October 4th, 2008: hugh, hen of the woods - general location = central Ohio, Growing Conditions = at the base of big white oaks, Additional Comments = we found two more perfect hen of the woods today, one small and the other quite large but still in excellent condition.
October 4th, 2008: Hi Chris, First, I love your site! I watch for the morel finds until they move to north country (MN). Anyway, I recently found a nice group of mushrooms near my new home. It is located in the northern half of MN. Avon area to be more specific. I had to use my cell phone to take the pics as someone stole my digital camera. The mushroom in question were found sept. 28. Most of the mushroom in the patch were past prime and turning brown. I think they are Clitocybe nuda, I would just like confirmation from a mushroom expert before I chow down on unfamiliar mushrooms. The color of the stem/gills/cap are blue to purplish in color, they vary in size 2" to 5 or 6" across the cap. They are now drying, the spore print is a dark tan to brown, the mushrooms are loosing the blue color but is still present given a close look. I hope these pictures and description are enough. Thank you and hope to hear from you soon. Dan
October 5th, 2008: I have a great photo to share, its my first chicken mushroom. Taken today Oct 5th..southern oregon cascades. I only took a small amount 15 #, nothing in comparison to its size... I was not sure if this was in fact the chicken mushroom, I came home researched , and felt ok to cook it, and it was great ..awesome taste. what beauty in the color and shape. Melissa K
