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Railroad tracks are some of the best morel hunting spots .not sure why.i think it has something to do with the gravel. Or mabey its the wind the trains produce that spread the spores. We have a small stretch of abandoned tracks that we hunt in the middle of the city.every year it pumps out tons of mushrooms.
 
stonemason said:
Ya its crazy in the wild the mushrooms thrive because of thier symbiotic relationships with the trees and plants and bacteria,rather than sterilization. Alot of them won't fruit until the the host tree or plant dies.we see this alot with morel hunting.the ones that live with the elms won't fruit until the elm dies, and gradually stop fruiting the older the dead tree gets.but the pernial patches that lived with the live ash trees came up every year until the ash trees died then they stopped .almost opposite growth patterns same mushrooms different host trees.they want live ash trees to fruit but dead elms and apples.

Those ghost pipes are cool.i found a huge patch a few years back.i didn't realize they are actualy a plant not a mushroom. I made a alchol tintiture from some.its supposed to be a good pain killer.it turns out bright purple.it is also supposed to give you wild dreams if you take to much...
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I'm in arborist by trade and you wouldn't believe how many white-haired progressives look at me like I'm lying straight to their face when I tell them all that slippery elm that's sitting in your backyard dead is the morels best friend
Lmaop
They'd rather go downtown and pay exorbitant prices rather than harvest their own but in all fairness with bioaccumulators like cannabis you got to be really really careful what's in that substrate because for all we know in some of these areas there is old lead paint dust that sat in the soil and just sat around for a while and it bio accumulators are the only things I can think of that would get that out of the soil but then you'd have to like burn the plants incinerated wise
 
stonemason said:
Railroad tracks are some of the best morel hunting spots .not sure why.i think it has something to do with the gravel. Or mabey its the wind the trains produce that spread the spores. We have a small stretch of abandoned tracks that we hunt in the middle of the city.every year it pumps out tons of mushrooms.
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I found a patch believe it or not a thousand yards west of the international airport where I live up against some old scrub pines
 
Bioaccumulated said:
I found a patch believe it or not a thousand yards west of the international airport where I live up against some old scrub pines
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Ya they pick some strange places to fruit. We find allot of them growing in sand and gravel next to the roads in one of the state parks we hunt. Its like the mycelium grows and grows until it hits the road, and then is like nope and fruits.same with the beat down hiking trails.we find allot of them right on or next to the trails when the trees are right. It is strange the types of trees they pick changes when we move to different parts of the forest.in one part they will grow under the tulips but a few miles away the tulips dont produce ,and they come up around the hackberries. Then across the county at another park they like the sycamore and cotton woods. We go crazy during morel season sometimes we even hunt them at night with uv spot lights.
 
Bioaccumulated said:
AH HA! at night with uv sounds really fun to me
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It is .the only problem is you cant see the trees .I usualy spot a tree go there hunt look up and find my next tree. then walk to that tree and humt.so we usualy save the night hunts for the spots we know the trees.it works great for the what we call little tiny poplar morels.the ones that dont get much bigger than your little finger.Screenshot_20260103_094802_Cloud.jpgScreenshot_20260103_094427_Cloud.jpgScreenshot_20260103_094448_Cloud.jpgScreenshot_20260103_094508_Cloud.jpg
 
lmaop the old ladies are gonna think im outa my mind when they see me out there, one of my fave spots to look is a huge retirement community that seconds as a elderly forward operating base! This is neat info! I cant wait to get out and see what i can find. Do you keep anything else you find other then morels?
;roll;smoke
 
Bioaccumulated said:
lmaop the old ladies are gonna think im outa my mind when they see me out there, one of my fave spots to look is a huge retirement community that seconds as a elderly forward operating base! This is neat info! I cant wait to get out and see what i can find. Do you keep anything else you find other then morels?
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Ya we eat chantrels,puff balls,chicken and hens of the woods, bolelets, oysters .the chantrels are the only ones you realy need to be careful of.they have a poisonous look alike called jack o lantern.they are easy to tell apart though.
 
stonemason said:
Ya we eat chantrels,puff balls,chicken and hens of the woods, bolelets, oysters .the chantrels are the only ones you realy need to be careful of.they have a poisonous look alike called jack o lantern.they are easy to tell apart though.
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thoughts on amanita muscaria?

apparently...they CAN be "safely" consumed, if "prepared" right?
 
Bioaccumulated said:
If you dont mind me asking if you sold those locally what would you pull prizes wise?
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They got up to 65 a wet pound retail last year.i never find enough to sell. My brother inlaw does.he hunts the little patches in the city and finds so many its crazy..he gets 30 to forty a pound from the stores that sell them for 65. Here is haul he found in a tiny little patch of woods in a housing addition in the city.all under one tree. Screenshot_20260103_101925_Messages.jpg
 
stonemason said:
Never ate them.got a buddy that loves them.i will ask him how he eats them sometime.
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apparently thats what is being used extracting for smoke shops choco mushroom bars, i had one before that was actually.....good......think they extracted whatever from amanita, could be wrong or mistaken.

thought that packaged claimed amanita extract, id have to find it.
 
Bioaccumulated said:
Ive harvested them for folks whom swear by muscarin
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"Ibotenic acid → Muscimol
  • Primary conversion: Ibotenic acid decarboxylates (loses a CO₂ group) when the mushroom is dried or heated.
  • Result: Muscimol, which is the main psychoactive compound producing sedative, dreamlike, and hallucinogenic effects.
  • Significance: This conversion reduces neurotoxicity because ibotenic acid is an excitatory neurotoxin, while muscimol is mainly sedative."

sweeet.

i thought ive seen some of these before in my area.....
 
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Bioaccumulated said:
Might need to get an eye exam at costco next time im there and make sure i dont need glasses now at 52. dont wanna miss the lil caps!
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I always wonder how many hundred we walk or drive by every year.here is a patch we picked out of an old guy's front yard. We stopped and asked him if we could pick them and he said "ya go ahead i mow them over every year boys"Screenshot_20260104_135613_Cloud.jpg
 
stonemason said:
Here is the Indian pipe, ghost plant,View attachment 122606 patch we found one year.there were over a hundred of them on on hill side.actuauly a plant not a mushroom.makes a purple alcohol tintiture, supposed to be a pain killer and help induce lucid dreaming.
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These are a non-chlorophyl containing plants that are parasitic on certain mushroom species.
I believe the genera that are parasitized are in Russula and Lactarius but that was too many braincells ago to be sure!
 
wow guys thanks for all the morel hunting tips!!! i've only ever found them by accident one time and didn't really know where to look or how to look really.

i'm going to ask the owner of the apple orchard next to me if he sees any on his property.

i've seen chicken of the woods and hen of the woods near me but never really knew much about wild foraging. decades ago when i first moved here a guy was trespassing and it turns out he was looking for mushrooms, the dude was super cool and spent the rest of his day showing me what to look for and let me tag along.

i've forgotten most of it,, a few years ago i out this app on my phone but have never used it yet...

ShroomID | Best Mushroom Identification App

The only mushroom app you'll ever need.
shroom.id
 
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