Morel Season Morels are a spring mushroom but spring can be loosely defined and it depends largely on where you’re looking. This post is written from a PNW perspective. Here are some of the ways one might estimate the right timing for morels Seasonality in your area Searching for “Morchella” or “morels” on iNaturalist then…
I created this guide to help you familiarize yourself with how to work with iNaturalist. This one specifically steps you though the process of using your. computer to load multiple observations at once. Alternatively you can use the iNaturalist app to upload individual observations.
I will be sharing 2020 morel burn maps soon but wanted to start with this index overview map. Members can check the Watch & Read section for map updates. Burn Map 2020 – Index
We created these morel maps to help gather and share information on 2020 burn areas around Washington and Oregon. This is a large file so it would be best to be connected to wifi in order to download. *** June 2021 update *** I won’t be making any updates to these maps because things change…...
The best morel content can be found in the morels lesson module Pro Intermediate Enrolled Morels A brief primer on morels and a selection of other related mushrooms that share morel-like characteristics. 9 Topics 1 hour Continue Lesson
Here is.a recording of the Intro to Mushrooms talk from Mar 23.
Some mushrooms are deadly poisonous. Others can cause serious liver or kidney damage. Some of these can look similar to edible mushrooms. The most seriously poisonous mushrooms are pretty easy to identify. Learn these and don’t eat anything that you can’t tell apart from them. Don’t eat any mushroom without knowing the common lookalikes and…
How do mushrooms eat? Most of us understand mushrooms to be decomposers though many of the mushrooms we see are found on soil or even living trees. You might be surprised to learn that fungi get nutrition in a variety of ways, and understanding how it is getting its nutrition can be a great way…
One aspect of mushroom identification is comparing an unknown mushroom to descriptions of a known mushroom. Here are some common cap shapes and representations of these through familiar mushrooms. All mushrooms exhibit a variety of shapes throughout their lifecycle so identification through cap shape is more art than science. Key Takeaways Cap shapes can be…