Continuing my search for morels, I headed for Mingo Creek Park in Washington County, PA on May Day. There the Western Pennsylvania Mushroom Club, together with the Washington CO park staff, hosts a weekend morel program with camping in the park. Mingo Creek Park is loaded with dying elms, a favorite morel habitat. Some years they find Avogadro’s number of morels. But some years it is just madness. Like this year when it was too dry to bring forth quantities, yet some of us were mad enough to walk for hours in the woods in the pouring rain on Sunday for very few mushrooms. I guess we shoulda been there last week and shoulda been there the next week. This is not to say that nobody found any. Some trees had pounds of morels beneath them, but these trees were few and far between. However, the club’s program was excellent, especially for beginning mushroomers. Put it on your calendar for next year.
A lucky picker.
John Plischke III with a handful of choice edibles. Oh wait! Maybe not! Not everything that looks like a morel is edible and some will even make you sick. Can you identify these mushrooms? If not, be very careful out there. The stomach you save may be your own.
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Note: I do not always give full names of those people I mention on this site. But John is a well known amateur mycologist and mushroom photographer. If you look hard enough online you can find photos of him with bushels of morels.
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