"Jaques d'Alltrades" wrote in message
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That said I will hopefully be going on a foray soon - maybe after a few
years I may seek out one or two species I can be confident about.

Acquire a stack of elder wood - any thickness - if you haven't got Jew's
Ear on it already, it's dead easy to inoculate it. Build the stack in a
shaded place, the damper the better.

Tramp around until you find an elder with small slightly translucent
chocolate coloured ear-shaped fungi, bring home as much of it as you
can, cut it into short lengths and distribute them about the stack.

Google for Auricularia auricula-judae - AKA - Hirneola auricula-judae.

And, if you are really interested in growing your own, morels may be
grown on the pulp from cidermaking,

Back in the spring a really nice flush of black morels came up in some
fairly recently applied ornamental bark in a nearby garden - I'm assuming it
was as the result of sclerotia having been scooped up with the bark.
I was a little wary of trying them due to rumoured incompatibility with
alcohol.
Very attractive they looked too :-

http://uk.geocities.com/gentlegreeng...orellowres.JPG


and several other species on oak and
poplar. I commend Chapter 7 (Mushroom growing) of Dr. John Ramsbottom's
excellent (if elderly) book, Mushrooms and Toadstools, in Collins' New
Naturalist series. A lot of the latin names used are out of date, thogh
generally recognised as alternatives.

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