Look what I found along the MUP
05-22-17, 08:18 AM
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Look what I found along the MUP
Four morel mushrooms. I stopped for a quick water break and to get a protein bar out of my pack yesterday morning, and viola.
I looked around for 10 minutes, just those four.
I'm not going to eat them, I'm going to do a little experiment I did in the past, which worked to a small degree. Going to put them in the blender with some water, and then dilute that in a couple gallons more and spray around the roots of the aspen trees and apple trees at the back of my property. When someone gave me a couple about 15 years ago, I did that, and ended up finding a few for several springs thereafter.
I looked around for 10 minutes, just those four.
I'm not going to eat them, I'm going to do a little experiment I did in the past, which worked to a small degree. Going to put them in the blender with some water, and then dilute that in a couple gallons more and spray around the roots of the aspen trees and apple trees at the back of my property. When someone gave me a couple about 15 years ago, I did that, and ended up finding a few for several springs thereafter.
05-22-17, 01:58 PM
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I ate the ones I found the other day. Those look like black morels.
05-22-17, 04:22 PM
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Nice catch. Here in Texas I only see edible puffballs, chanterelles and oysters. Supposedly we have morels but I've never seen any.
05-23-17, 11:26 AM
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05-23-17, 12:21 PM
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I'm no expert, but I think know morels fairly well - spent a lot of time as a kid in the north woods picking them from about 6 to 13, I got to recognize the difference. My uncle owned acreage near Kalkaska, MI - rolling land with beech/maple/oak hardwood forest and some deep, rich black soil at the base of the hills. It grew morels - real and false, in abundance if the weather cooperated. Unfortunately, our source was cut off - he had to sell it to pay off his ex in a divorce settlement.
However, they're still in my fridge, so I'll look at them closely tonight. Just looking at the photo I posted, it does look "iffy" about the presence of the deep pits that are a sign of the "true" Morels in the genus Morchella.
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05-23-17, 04:24 PM
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If the bottom of the cap is attached to the stem it is a true morel. False morels are only attached at the top of the stem.
05-24-17, 11:05 AM
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What's the morel of this story?
05-31-17, 02:23 PM
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Every years people do get poisoned by mushrooms incorrectly identified.
If you are an expert: bon appétit!
06-01-17, 11:03 AM
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