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Went for a morel hunt a few days ago with a mate got about a kilo and a half

Does anyone in W.A. pick seasonal patches or just burn areas

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Awesome pics! I've only ever found a single morel here last year. Wish there were more.

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Theres loads of em around here at the moment

Some more pics from today

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sick finds man , is this in areas burnt this year?

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any chance of finding morrels around the gold coast? i often see similar fruit growing from mulch but there the poo smell variety

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sick finds man , is this in areas burnt this year?

Yeh man we had a pretty horrible huge ass fire down my way last year burnt a whole lot of bush

so there's plenty of areas to check out

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I didn't see any on recent SW excursions, saw most in the city on heavily mulched beds,

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I'd like to find some of the ones in the city in mulched garden beds for some experiments
havent managed to spot any when I been up there though

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any chance of finding morrels around the gold coast? i often see similar fruit growing from mulch but there the poo smell variety

Those are probably stinkhorns, which are unfortunately totally unrelated to morels despite a few which can look similar. I don't think any of them are actually poisonous, and there are a few species which are apparently eaten (or at least some pieces of the fungus are eaten - not the stinky bit obviously!), but generally they're not considered particularly edible.

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lol ... stinkhorn is a very fitting name.....

such a shame as morels are so so tasty. ill do some reserch about growing them at home, would make a lovely treat.

thanks Anodyne for the info and the link, ima get studying :)

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Are these down south of WA? would love to go picking these but am not sure if there would be any around perth sort of area...

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lol ... stinkhorn is a very fitting name.....

such a shame as morels are so so tasty. ill do some reserch about growing them at home, would make a lovely treat.

thanks Anodyne for the info and the link, ima get studying :)

If you can come up with a reliable way to produce morels at home you could stand to make a fortune. Morels are notriously difficult to grow with standard techniques used for most other edible mushrooms.

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lol ... stinkhorn is a very fitting name.....

such a shame as morels are so so tasty. ill do some reserch about growing them at home, would make a lovely treat.

thanks Anodyne for the info and the link, ima get studying :)

i find them on freshly laid "beauty bark" and have successfully transplanted them to a patch in the garden

before... [once]

but they are the fastest colonising mycelium known [to the best of my learnings]

and they'll also bugger off as fast as they arrived unless you keep replenishing them ...

other than that [and burn sites], orchards are supposed to be great for morels ... esp olde ones..

got any established apple trees and beauty bark ?

best info on growing them I've ever found is from Paul stamets books ...

might be able to buy a live culture from him?

good luck either way!

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I obviouslt had a biy much the other night and didn't register what the title said at all :P but anyone know of any up closer to perth?

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Ive been trying to sell native morels from north east vic to a number of chefs in Melbourne and most of them tell me they are too tasteless. Wonder if WA bad boys are better value flavour wise?

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I've been searching for 5 years now with the morel as my target species. I hag the found a single specimen. A friend did two years ago but only a scant few. I wish I had enough time to go search the burn areas.

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I've found a heap up in the Perth hills jwerta. Usually under grass trees. Also found some in a verge, in the suburbs. A truck rolled there the year before and spilt limestone in it which morels love!

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Just putting it out there, I would pay reasonable $$ for a pure Morel culture. If anyone has the resources and expertise, please get in touch.

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