Everyone might want to have Morel Mushrooms growing in their own back yards, and we have it. There are only three of them to be found, and perhaps there may be a few more hiding in the flowers too. If there are more we may not find them easily, and with the dry spring morels may be harder to find anyway.
For a few years going back about five years we tried to plant some morel spores on the weed elm tree. We thought this tree would be cut down soon and it was two years ago, so if morels are showing up this year the root system of this tree must have finally died. We used the same process on our apple tree a few years before it died and had only two morel mushrooms grow after that tree died.
The method was to rinse off morel mushrooms we bought to eat and save the water from the washing. The water containing spores was then dumped out at the base of these trees while the trees were still alive. Then when the trees die the morels show up in the shaded areas where the tree roots were running.
There's not much to eat but it makes for a great photo.
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5 Comments:
Cool. I have never seen that kind of mushroom before. That is different.
I have a very mushroomy yard... very strange looking creatures.... My yard is wet and shady, and used to be a forest not too long ago!
I love watching mushrooms grow, and we've only had a few varieties in our yard. We have found some very beautiful mushrooms around various places in Madison. If I knew more about them I would probably even try eating more of them, but it would be too risky with my understanding of them to try eating found mushrooms.
snap!
Pleased to make the acquiantance of a fellow morel spotter!
Henry, You have a great photo of a moral in your blog. I understand they like to grow on elm and apple tree roots. I think the fungi lives on the roots for as long as the tree lives, and then when the tree dies the fungi sent up the mushroom part we see and eat. Ours is coming up from an area with dead elm tree roots in the soil. Do you think the one you have may be coming from an old tree root?
Mmmm...that was a tasty mushroom! (it's gone now, Stan and I split it, along with store-bought morels).
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