If you find one, you need to freeze and look around. Morels can range from thimble size to something resembling a soda can, although the larger ones are more rare. Early season morels are often black and about the size of your thumb and often first found near sycamore trees.
Gray, or yellow, morels usually appear later in the season. Always identify a mushroom before harvesting it for food. If you cannot identify it, do not eat it, some mushrooms are toxic and a few can be fatal.
All Rights Reserved. I extinguished my light off and huddled in silence behind the closest tree. As I looked to the sky, the dimmest of light revealed a near-macabre shillouette of twisting and tangled strips of bark curling downward. A dead elm. I waited Minutes passed in this manner before, once again, I turned on the light.
Directly ahead on the ground, perhaps some feet away, were several more brightly glowing objects. Mushrooms everywhere! I filled my second bag and part of a third until startled by a another scream, perhaps only feet away. I cut the light and fled from the woods with my bounty. Propelled by fear and excitement, my adrenal glands literally wept as I tore through the woods, across the field, and back to the safety of my Jeep. Through this incident--completely seredipitous in nature--I chanced upon the solution to the mushroomer's perennial problem of the lack of visual acuity.
Mushrooms contain high levels of phosphorous, so it only stands to reason that they glow when exposed to bright light. Further experimentation on subsequent outings reveals, not surprisingly, that the method works best with lighter-colored species such as morchella crassipes, morchella esculenta or morchella deliciosa "yellows" , but less so with morchella conica "grays".
Incidental to this discovery is the now obvious fact that mushroom hunting can occur successfully BOTH day and night. While this is remarkable in its own right, nighttime hunting also adds an entirely new and novel dimension to the sport! The application and use of highly luminescent LED light to hunt phosphorous-rich morel mushrooms at night is a breakthrough no less revolutionary than the discoveries of vulcanization by Goodyear or pasteurization by Pasteur!
Having now "enlightened" this select group with my profound discovery, I hope to see you in the woods this spring—-and perhaps even at night! Posted by Unknown at AM. All you really have to do is saute them in butter and sprinkle them with salt. If you want to get more elaborate, scramble some sauteed morels with eggs and hint of tarragon, and you may never fry mushrooms again.
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Morels can be hard to spot, and one of the most common mistakes among foragers is walking right past them. At left is a real morel, which is distinguished by its pit-covered cap. At right, the ridges on the cap are a dead giveaway for a false morel, which can be toxic. Wiki Commons 1. Want more of the Great Outdoors? Witzofsky has yet to hit a morel mother lode this year. The fungi have eluded Lacefield, too.
Not yet. New to mushroom hunting? Seek guidance, says both Witzofsky and Lacefield. Numerous books and videos are available to help with everything from probable morel locations to tree identification.
Better yet, go with an experienced hunter. It definitely takes experience. You can bet that all the best areas near public-land parking lots will likely be picked over. So just like you might digital scout land for deer hunting, use the same tactics for mushroom hunting.
The onX Hunt mapping app has a burn layer that will help you identify forest areas that have burned in the past. A little digital scouting can help make your time mushroom hunting in the field more productive. Plan routes that will get you away from crowds. Also be mindful of turkey hunters this spring which promises to be another busy season in the turkey woods. Try to do you hunting midday and if you see blinds or decoys, please head the other direction.
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