[pomoxis64]

While on the subject of fungi growth and snowpacks etc. How do morels spread the spores grown on a fruiting body? Are they eaten by animals like deer and racoons, are they spread by wind, are they spread by bird poopy (scat for you biologist) or are they so widespread that it doesn't matter. I'm thinking about those mesh bags and spore spreading. Are there a lot of patches of woods that look ideal that have no morels. I mean you've got lots of big (almost dead Poplars, a lot of big ash, some sycamores and an occasional dead elm. But no morels. Maybe these woods just haven't been inoculated with Morcella. I mean you can have a petri dish with the most scrumptouos growth medium possible but if it isn't incoulated with the desired organism (in this case morcella) they won't grow. Should we be going through the non productice woods beating on our mesh bags? Just asking!

 

[pomoxis64]

Pedro thanks for the lead and I read the entire string. Still does not explain to me how morels move across the ridge. Water flows downhill. Up at the top of a drainage system if just one morel sporulates it's millions (maybe trillions) of spores and they flow down the stream then everyplace downstream will get inocolated. Still gotta get over that ridge or the next valley could still be sterile. I have read a lot about this because I am a microbiologist. But I am (was) a bacteriologist and don't know squat about fungi and the means of transmission from one ecosystem to another. Somehow they have to get over that ridge. Or maybe we could put the blooming, fruiting morels into a cardboard box, or a mesh bag, and carry them over the ridge. I mean, we transplanted the Ebola virus from Africa to the US on an airplane. Do deer ear morels?