Fantastic information! I especially love the chart at the beginning! I love bringing my family mushroom hunting with me as well, because my wife probably finds twice the amount of mushrooms that I do LOL. In my experience, women are just better at mushroom hunting
I'd like to see you mark a spot and show us that mushrooms grow after they come up. I've marked trees and brush but none of the mushrooms I've marked have never grown just got dry
You had said that you usually find black morels around birch trees. What type of birch do you look for and are there other trees that you like to look for them near?
Black birch normally, and they will usually be within a radius of about 2 to 3 feet around the base of tree. You can find them around elms as well, but this is just from my personal experience. Then tend to prefer more well drained soil, but not a dry area. One of my best spots is a deciduous area with a higher density of black birch the area is rocky and mossy near a stream, and the soil is well drained. I hope that helps! They are more difficult to spot as well because the soil they are in, is darker like they are. Of course there are always aberrant cases where you find them growing in a weird spot.
@@Sambucus199 awesome, thanks for the tip. I live in Southern Ontario, and don't find many black morels around here but I want to start looking for them more often. I teach foraging tours, wild medicinal and edible plants and mushrooms locally, but black morels are hard to come by in this area. Keep up the good work!
Hey, Cara, great video, and thanks! 😃👍 Quick question: what do the 1 thru 40 numbers represent at the top of your chart? The length of morel season? If so, starting roughly when & ending roughly when?
1 through 40 represent days. So it depends on the area. It's more like if you see this one fruiting, you either won't see this other species fruiting or it will be very old if you find it. For example, if you see less mature Morchella angusticeps, you probably won't see any Morchella diminutiva in the area because their fruiting times are different.
Excellent video! Thank you! I'm in Grove City, pa. ,...do you have any mushroom hunts near me planned for this spring?? Id love to go hunting with you!
I have been doing well in Allegheny County. If you are near there then yeah I'd say get out there and start foraging. 🙂Not the best year Morel wise but I'm still doing pretty well.
I live in Halifax PA and my father in law owns a huge farm with lots of wooded land and I can’t ever find them I take my time I get really close to the ground and just no luck spent 8 hours today seen some other fungi but none of these sadly I know if I just seen one and in person i could find them
It does help seeing them and getting the eye for them. I like to look at a bunch of pictures of them in their habitat before I head out to sort or train my mind a little. Once you see one you start to spot them much more easily, and will notice ones you've walked past. Also make sure you going out at the right time. They're only up for a limited time, so that can be a factor as well.
@@davidcurry5042 Just beware with apple trees because old orchard were know to use some nasty pesticides that are still in the soil. Arsenic levels are also high around apple trees from old orchards. Just advice though no judgment either way. They are a great place to find them though!
They have decided that the American species that was called M. esculenta is actually a separate and distinct species from it's old world counterparts and has been reclassified as M. americana it's common name is the White Morel now.
Real good info . Thank you. 👍
Fantastic information! I especially love the chart at the beginning! I love bringing my family mushroom hunting with me as well, because my wife probably finds twice the amount of mushrooms that I do LOL. In my experience, women are just better at mushroom hunting
My 8 year old and I have been feasting on morels past few days finding nice samples around the bluffs of Erie and presque isle.
I'd like to see you mark a spot and show us that mushrooms grow after they come up. I've marked trees and brush but none of the mushrooms I've marked have never grown just got dry
Very Cool and informatively a pleasure.
Hello from north central Ohio
You had said that you usually find black morels around birch trees. What type of birch do you look for and are there other trees that you like to look for them near?
Black birch normally, and they will usually be within a radius of about 2 to 3 feet around the base of tree. You can find them around elms as well, but this is just from my personal experience. Then tend to prefer more well drained soil, but not a dry area. One of my best spots is a deciduous area with a higher density of black birch the area is rocky and mossy near a stream, and the soil is well drained. I hope that helps! They are more difficult to spot as well because the soil they are in, is darker like they are. Of course there are always aberrant cases where you find them growing in a weird spot.
@@Sambucus199 awesome, thanks for the tip. I live in Southern Ontario, and don't find many black morels around here but I want to start looking for them more often. I teach foraging tours, wild medicinal and edible plants and mushrooms locally, but black morels are hard to come by in this area. Keep up the good work!
@@joet81 I hope you find a good spot!
@@Sambucus199 thanks! Lots of spots for Americana here, so either way I'm happy
Hey, Cara, great video, and thanks! 😃👍 Quick question: what do the 1 thru 40 numbers represent at the top of your chart? The length of morel season? If so, starting roughly when & ending roughly when?
1 through 40 represent days. So it depends on the area. It's more like if you see this one fruiting, you either won't see this other species fruiting or it will be very old if you find it. For example, if you see less mature Morchella angusticeps, you probably won't see any Morchella diminutiva in the area because their fruiting times are different.
@@Sambucus199 Okay, great! Thanks! 😃👍
Excellent video! Thank you! I'm in Grove City, pa. ,...do you have any mushroom hunts near me planned for this spring?? Id love to go hunting with you!
I hoping to do a walk up near moraine for other species later in the year, but most of my morel walks will be in Allegheny Co.
I’m here in grove city too!
Thanks, spice bush and slippery elms!
Great clip - I’m not very good at finding these and I’m in the woods all the time ! Usually only find ramps - Thanks for the tips.
I enjoyed this video very much. Thanks, and happy hunting!
Nice video! Is now a good time to he out hunting? Totally new to this and looking for some advice on timing. Thanks!
I have been doing well in Allegheny County. If you are near there then yeah I'd say get out there and start foraging. 🙂Not the best year Morel wise but I'm still doing pretty well.
I live in Halifax PA and my father in law owns a huge farm with lots of wooded land and I can’t ever find them I take my time I get really close to the ground and just no luck spent 8 hours today seen some other fungi but none of these sadly I know if I just seen one and in person i could find them
It does help seeing them and getting the eye for them. I like to look at a bunch of pictures of them in their habitat before I head out to sort or train my mind a little. Once you see one you start to spot them much more easily, and will notice ones you've walked past. Also make sure you going out at the right time. They're only up for a limited time, so that can be a factor as well.
I’ve been struggling finding any
Don't give up! I hope you found some, if not there is always next year.
Well done, thanku
Been a great year in pa for morels. I have done best under big old apple trees mostly white morels.
Hmmm 🤔 Never knew any of this until I was 5 about 55 years ago. 👍
I live in Brownsville pa I haven’t been able to find any in 3 years I’ve tried a lot things.
I hope you have better luck this year! Sometime you may be in the right spot just at the wrong time. Good luck!
Dying elm or apple trees are the best in pa
@@davidcurry5042 Just beware with apple trees because old orchard were know to use some nasty pesticides that are still in the soil. Arsenic levels are also high around apple trees from old orchards. Just advice though no judgment either way. They are a great place to find them though!
I didn't see the Morchella esculenta, the yellow morel on your chart to plot the fruiting days. It is one of the last fruiting morels. (@1:04 minutes)
They have decided that the American species that was called M. esculenta is actually a separate and distinct species from it's old world counterparts and has been reclassified as M. americana it's common name is the White Morel now.
Slippery elms and spice bush. Glad I found your channel.
Thanks!