2023 INDIANA MORELS CHANTERELLES and all other FUNGI CONVERSATIONS also TREE IDENTIFICATION and UPDATES post here !!

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wade

Discussion Starter · 5 mo ago

Welcome Everyone to Our 2023 Morel Season..
Wade here! 🤠
I'm Ready Ready Ready to Go Man Go..
And I know Yall are also just as Anxious..
🐶🐸🐰🐦🐝🦋🐢🐍🦃🐕🐿🍄🌦🌎🌿
Yep all kinds of Creatures, Fun and Fungi
Out there, We will Gently☯ Peacefully☮ and ❤ Lovingly ❤ Join in with them for the Beautiful Awesome and Amazing Event of Spring. 🌞✨🌦⛄☔🇺🇲💫🌎🌷🍄🌱
And as we Enjoy Every Moment, We are also gonna be finding Our Morels 🍄🌦🍄🍄🍄🍄🌦🍄🍄🍄🍄🌦🍄🍄🍄🍄
🤠 This Will Be My 57th Season of Hunting the Same Areas that My Dad first Carried Me into..when I was only 2 yrs old in 1965
I'm Not Studied up on all the New Sience that is Available in Our Age of Online..
I Just "Love the Hunt" and I Still Find Morels Almost every time I go, sometimes a few Sometimes a lot.. it is very Exciting to find a bunch like 50, 100 or 300..
But I believe we will all agree 👍🏻 💯
It's the "Love of the Hunt" and just being in the woods is Always Our Heart ❤
🤠 I hope this year as we all find Our way on down the trail together on Here..
That we will make time to take some Pictures of Cool, interesting things we see along the Way,
Maybe like a beautiful sunrise as you begin your hunt in the morning.. then pics of Morels Growing...
and when you find yourself looking face to face with a perfect Example for a 🌳 Tree Identification 🌳 please take some pictures and share them with All of us...
🌲 and just as well if you find a Tree you are Not Sure of ..share some good pics of it and we can All help to identify what it is.🌲
🍄 Also when Our Morels are done, STAY IN THE WOODS..We will Continue finding Many Other types of Edible Fungi 🍄 all Summer and Fall into Winter ....
Ok ❤ Thank You Everyone 😊
Let's get on down thru the Woods together and check in here often as You Can..
See ya soon
from Wade 🤠
Love the Hunt

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wade

Discussion Starter · #2 · 5 mo ago

Here is a Picture from Last year April 15th 2022

Camouflage Plant Military camouflage Tree Marines

Even though we had days every week of Early warm weather..it still had not made any Noticeable difference, to any Early Popp'n of Morels in This Earliest spot I Hunt..We did find Only 3 small Morels 2 still hiddenn, just beginning at their normal Popp'n time.. this pic also shows a small Elm tree with bark falling off..I find around trees like this Often.

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Tool fan

· #3 · 5 mo ago

hey y’all ready it’s creeping up on us !!!!!

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wade

Discussion Starter · #4 · 5 mo ago

Tool fan said:
hey y’all ready it’s creeping up on us !!!!!

Yes the days seem to go slow and fast from now on in

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elmgirl

· #5 · 5 mo ago

Cant wait we r counting down already...we put our snowmen in the mushrooms because come Christmas we know it's just right around the corner🤣

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wade

Discussion Starter · #6 · 5 mo ago

elmgirl said:
Cant wait we r counting down already...we put our snowmen in the mushrooms because come Christmas we know it's just right around the corner🤣 View attachment 44539

Yep, and funny cause we know that sometimes we find um in an April Snow

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celticcurl

· #7 · 5 mo ago

I'm soooo ready. I hope gas stays below 4.00 this year. End of the season last year I paid 5.25 on my trip home from the Yoop.

I missed Indiana last year and don't want to make that mistake again.

Elm Girl, I hope you come up again so we can hunt the U.P. together. I think we have a bunch of decent sites to hit now. We just have to get the timing down for the whites. We were definently early last year. But at least we got a bunch of blacks. Hopefully Wade can join us.

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celticcurl

· #8 · 5 mo ago

I'm wondering how many of us just have dried mushrooms sitting around the house.

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wade

Discussion Starter · #9 · 5 mo ago

celticcurl said:
I'm wondering how many of us just have dried mushrooms sitting around the house.

Yes We do

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cajunshroomer3578

· #10 · 5 mo ago

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Wow y’all starting already ?!?! Cmon now guys. A bit of an obsession don’t ya think

Wade messaged me to post today so I did lol
Been pretty busy with life lately. Hadn’t did much foraging yet. I Did get out and harvest some meat though. Won’t be able to drive too far north to search for morels but I see a trip to central Mississippi on the horizon. May the mushroom gods be with each and everyone of you fungible folks

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wade

Discussion Starter · #11 · 5 mo ago

cajunshroomer3578 said:
Wow y’all starting already ?!?! Cmon now guys. A bit of an obsession don’t ya think
Wade messaged me to post today so I did lol
Been pretty busy with life lately. Hadn’t did much foraging yet. I Did get out and harvest some meat though. Won’t be able to drive too far north to search for morels but I see a trip to central Mississippi on the horizon. May the mushroom gods be with each and everyone of you fungible folks View attachment 44542
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Dang. .. I HAVEN'T HAD Squirrel since 1981
You are bringing home the food Man

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elmgirl

· #12 · 5 mo ago

celticcurl said:
I'm soooo ready. I hope gas stays below 4.00 this year. End of the season last year I paid 5.25 on my trip home from the Yoop.

I missed Indiana last year and don't want to make that mistake again.

Elm Girl, I hope you come up again so we can hunt the U.P. together. I think we have a bunch of decent sites to hit now. We just have to get the timing down for the whites. We were definently early last year. But at least we got a bunch of blacks. Hopefully Wade can join us.

We will definitely be up!

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wade

Discussion Starter · #13 · 5 mo ago

I Will Be up and Further Up and All the way UP
So... I guess that's a Y'UP ... I'm in...
But I'm Still Very Scared of Bears..
S S S So.... I will be Pack,n and Loaded for ELEPHANT.. and if I do have to Kill a Bear, because I really don't want to..
But if I do have to Kill a Bear... I'm gonna want to Skin it Out, Ready for Taxidermist...
CAN I DO ALL THAT.... or do I have to outrun the Game Wardens

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sb

· #14 · 5 mo ago

celticcurl said:
I'm wondering how many of us just have dried mushrooms sitting around the house.

I do and just a few days ago I was wondering about what I might do with them. I think I'm going to get out my notes from past Morel cook-ups to see what is inspiring. (?) I probably have enough for just 1 (ONE) good cook-up.
😎 🌞

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Jpuette

· #15 · 5 mo ago

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Flower Plant Petal Terrestrial plant Fawn

Here are a few of my fall finds down in GA.

Plant Mushroom Terrestrial plant Grass Natural landscape

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wade

Discussion Starter · #16 · 5 mo ago

Jpuette said:
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Here are a few of my fall finds down in GA. View attachment 44548

Very Good Photography..I don't know Exactly what Fungi those are

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Jpuette

· #17 · 5 mo ago

wade said:
Very Good Photography..I don't know Exactly what Fungi those are

The cluster of white ones is oysters.
The weird pink/purple one is reishi
The big one in my hand is a turnip footed amanita
The white one inside the tree hollow is lions mane
The dark one with orange bottom is chaga

The Amanita is not edible but all others are. Lions mane is a choice edible. Reishi and chaga are both medicinal.

I’m no expert, these are just the few that I can positively identify. Trying to figure out what you’ve found is all part of the fun.

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shroomsearcher

· #18 · 5 mo ago

The last one kind of looks like Chaga. And I typed that sentence just before your reply came through Jpuette. I can't wait to see some green in the woods around here again. And I kind of expect Georgia or Mississippi to chime in with finds in about a month or so! Good luck for this season.

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wade

Discussion Starter · #19 · 5 mo ago

Jpuette said:
The cluster of white ones is oysters.
The weird pink/purple one is reishi
The big one in my hand is a turnip footed amanita
The white one inside the tree hollow is lions mane
The dark one with orange bottom is chaga

The Amanita is not edible but all others are. Lions mane is a choice edible. Reishi and chaga are both medicinal.

I’m no expert, these are just the few that I can positively identify. Trying to figure out what you’ve found is all part of the fun.

Yeah.. Thanks for Confirming those, and with those great pics..it will help us all for Reference..
I want a start going out more in Summer and Fall..but I've Always been working daylight to dark those Months..
And I Really need to start dosing/ eating lots of medical Fungi..yes I do

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celticcurl

· #20 · 5 mo ago (Edited)

wade said:
Yes We do View attachment 44540

I guess I should have said how many of us just have loose random dried mushrooms sitting around the house as decorations. Not sayin those aren't mighty pretty... I just didn't say what I meant.

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