Newer morel hunter, Tree ID?

My spots from last year are not panning out so far.. Isn’t this a Elm tree with the perfect bark?

You’re not the only one without morels.

You’re in the right spot, just give it a couple days.

Still early check back later. South facing slopes are starting to produce for me.

Same here, higher altitude southern slopes.

That’s exactly what you want to look for. I found about 30 today in west central WI. Mix of greys and yellows.

As others have said, we are on the front end. I would think by early next week they should really be popping.

I found some growing in our front lawn yesterday along the root line of a live oak. They’ve never grown there before. I’m not finding them in the usual places this year.

I think thats a Siberian elm, lots of those around. Next year all that bark will have fallen off the tree and a good place to check. Their not always around elms, they grow everywhere even in cow pastures and in the sand on islands.

I checked Monday before the rain and also yesterday in western Wi and found zippo, i think in another day or 2 they should be out in my area

Now that the Morrells are just about gone I’m looking forward to decent moisture so the elephant ears and oyster mushroom can grow. Here they grow only on sides of trees that are both dead and growing. They grow in diffrent size groups and are stacked like coffe cup saucers and dinner plates, one on top of another and their size can be small or up to as big as the size of dinner plates.

One late fall we had an early hard frost and while deer hunting we seen dozens of trees that had both of these kinds growing from them, conservatively we could have filled a quarter to half of a pickup box with them, they we growing everywhere we could see on river bottom soft maples. Then theres the delicious brown buttons that eventually open up to an umbrella, those are very good. Then a little later around fall time theres the Cottage Cheese and Goatsbeards mushrooms and both of those are also very good, some call the Goatsbeards then Hen Of the Woods, for fall mushrooms their about as good as it gets, way better then Portabellas or Shitake and alot of people think their better tasteing then Morrells. My personal opinion is all the late summer and fall mushrooms taste better but Morrells are pretty darned good too, especially fried in butter, heck their all good no matter what time of year they grow.

Then in early winter theres even the snowshoe mushrooms that grow on sunny sides of hills that have partially thawed, Oh wait a minute, thats just my tastebuds kicking in after all the warm weather mushrooms have gone, just wishing for fresh wild mushrooms, just thought Id throw that one in too…