Has anyone found morel mushrooms in or near Evansville In?

Question

I am new to this and have no idea where to even look.. Can I just walk to a wooded area and find them or are there certain things they grow around? (I heard to look for elm trees).. If you have found them in or near Evansville do you mind sharing where??

Answer 1

I live not far across the river in Kentucky. We find them in the woods around our house. They are pretty hard to find, but once you start finding a few, you can look around the same places and find more. Our hunting areas are hilly woods, I'm not sure if you would find them in wooded flat flood plane areas around Evansville or not. I would guess not. So, head for the hills and wooded areas. It would help you a lot if you could find someone with some experience to take with you. Or you could try growing your own, they are kind of tricky to grow, but try this site.

http://www.gmushrooms.com/Morel/index.ht...

Answer 2

I am sorry I am not from your area. Maybe you could ask the local mycological or mycophagist societies.

However I can tell you some general points from my experiences in Canada.

I have heard pine trees. but really it has seemed to be almost anywhere, just after the snow melts, when the trees are putting out first leafs.

Burned over areas are good but I think that is just because you can see them easier.

I am not from your area and don't care, but I doubt if any local morel hunters would be willing to share locations.

Morel hunting tends to be competitive.

One note. I have never seen morels come up where there is strong sunlight, always under shade.

Anothere note is that a lot of mushrooms lift the dirt up as they come up, so any weird lumps on the ground should be at least checked with the toe of your boot.

Morels tend to stand up clean, but still, a touch with a toe might suprise you..

Morels have a short season and are highly prized both by table hunters and venture capitalist(market) hunters.

Oddly enough one of my best morel sites was a thicket of Japanese Bamboo, which is really not bamboo or Japanese, but is a variety of buckwheat, and which fruited much later than expected, late instead of early spring.

I have seen huge fruitings of black morels after a forest fire in northern ontario, the three years after the fire.

That was likely because they were easy to see, but it might have been from the availbility of nutrients.

But yup. Fireweed and morels seemed to match.

Most of the Elm trees were wiped out about 40 years ago by Dutch Elm Disease.

It is true that morels fruited on their dead root systems.

But unless you are in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada white elms are harder to find than the morels are.

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One thing more, I have found white morels growing only a few feet from a snowbank. They are a spring species.

(and a great excuse to be a wandering in the woods in the spring)

Answer 3

we still need more sunlight, though there were some greys up yesterday....Grafton, IL , where the Mississippi and Illinois rivers meet.......they're coming soon....