where to look for mushrooms??

Justin SE IOWA · Apr 24, 2011

I have always heard to look around dead elm trees. There is a river bottom by my house that is full of elm trees. But a guy I work with told me there wont be any down there because it floods at least once a year. Is there any truth in that??

JDseller · Apr 24, 2011

He is right, not too many mushrooms will grow in wet ground. Plus the flooding will wash the spore away. I find them best on hill sides facing the north. They seem to like non direct sun and shade. They are going to be late this year due to the cold and wet spring. I only have saw a few real small ones so far.

msb · Apr 24, 2011

Most I ever found in one place was in the White River bottom. Had just served as a pallbearer for the landlord. He didn't have many friends. Maybe he pulled some strings .lol.

Tramway Guy · Apr 24, 2011

Safest place is the grocery store. If you aren't 100% sure what they are you can get seriously sick or dead eating the wrong ones.

Pat-CT · Apr 24, 2011

on the cow crap? HA, bust seriously the store is the safest unless
you KNOW what they are

tjdub · Apr 24, 2011

Morels are picky buggers. Elm trees is right, but sometimes they're found under other dead trees (e.g. Apple). Dead Elm trees are by far the most plentiful thanks to Dutch Elm though. Anyway, I've found many in flood plains under elm trees. My Dad tells a story about back in the 1970s when he found grocery bags full in our flood plain pasture (with no trees around). I can tell you for a fact that this has never happened since though. The story alone is enough to keep me checking diligently every year

Basically, you may look under 20 prime-looking dead elms and come up with nothing EVERY YEAR. On another hillside 200ft away, almost every dead elm will have a few. It has a lot to do with moisture, ground cover, and soil type/condition. There's a reason it's so hard to grow them commercially, they're just a very very picky fungus.

Roy in UK · Apr 25, 2011

You are right about the safety aspect but oh how I miss wild mushrooms! I don't know about across the pond but mushrooms from the store here in The UK taste like cardboard.

Traditional Farmer · Apr 25, 2011

Best place I know of is in a stand of mostly Oak trees that has been burned over at some point.

IaGary · Apr 25, 2011

I live here by the Coralville Reservoir. We have
found Morels on the 20th of July after the spring
flood water has gone down. We have found them with
floods and without floods. There are also years we
do not find any whether it floods or not.

You just never know.

Someone mentioned the floods wash the spores away.
Well floods can bring the spores in as well.

Gary

TonyIN · Apr 25, 2011

Not sure about the bottom areas and I"m not real experienced like many others, but have been finding them under buckeye tree saplings (8" to 12" tall saplings) on a very slight northern slope. None by the ash or elms...
Haven"t figured out a pattern yet.

Leroy · Apr 25, 2011

Dads been gone for many a year but when he could hunt he has found them in standing water in the woods with snow patches around

Bspauld · Apr 25, 2011

I have found them in standing water to. but they had grit in them,had to throw them away. 3 years in a row I found them in a stand of Poplar trees.

GeneMO · Apr 25, 2011

I find mine mostly around Ash trees.

Gene

old · Apr 25, 2011

Depends on what type your looking for. I find the morals out in the field where no trees are close. I just walk around back and forth. Funny how you can walk the same area 3 times and still find more of them

BillinCentralMO · Apr 25, 2011

Especially around Dying Elms. Any tree struck by lightning deserves checking. They like wood that has been burned. Season is well under way in Central Missouri. Found 14 large yellow and white morels this past weekend. I have not found any where it flooded recently (last 60 days). Flooding last fall does not mean they won't come up.Good luck and be sure of your finds. If in doubt , throw it out.

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