Can anyone tell me how to id a dead elm tree. I have heard for years,
you look for dead elm trees to find morels ( mushrooms ) in an area. Any
help will be appreciated. kate

il Mon, 24 May 2004 11:47:20 -0500, "Kate ......" ha scritto:

Can anyone tell me how to id a dead elm tree. I have heard for years,
you look for dead elm trees to find morels ( mushrooms ) in an area. Any
help will be appreciated. kate


Should be a lot of dead elm trees around after Dutch Elm Tree Disease
has decimated so many around the world.
--
Cheers,
Loki [ Brevity is the soul of wit. W.Shakespeare ]

On Mon, 24 May 2004 11:47:20 -0500, "Kate ......"
wrote:

Can anyone tell me how to id a dead elm tree. I have heard for years,
you look for dead elm trees to find morels ( mushrooms ) in an area. Any
help will be appreciated. kate

Here's a few -
http://www.inquiry.uiuc.edu/partners/ppp/deadelms.jpg
From the looks, they haven't been dead long.

Good luck. Morels are like the holy grail. I found some on my
property about 10 years ago. I had lived here 8 years then and
thought I'd been blind for the first eight years. But they
haven't re-appeared since.

The patch I found was indeed at the foot of an old elm-- but it was
little more than a rotted stump by the time it hosted the
Morels.

And if you haven't eaten any yet & wonder if they are worth the
effort. . . . . Oh yeah-- they're definitely worth whatever you
need to do.

Jim

On Mon, 24 May 2004 11:47:20 -0500 in
, "Kate ......"
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Can anyone tell me how to id a dead elm tree. I have heard for years,
you look for dead elm trees to find morels ( mushrooms ) in an area. Any
help will be appreciated. kate

Find the morels, then look at the tree they're near....

Find live elm trees... then look for the ones that didn't make it...

Thats one big problem. I have never been able to find one. I hear all the
great hunts of braggers. No one will say where they find them. Only little
hints. Mainly about an elm tree. To tell you the truth, I am not a very good
person to ask the name of any tree. I try hard to learn . Must be looking
in the wrong places. kate








belly wrote:

On Mon, 24 May 2004 11:47:20 -0500 in
, "Kate ......"
graced the world with this thought:

Can anyone tell me how to id a dead elm tree. I have heard for years,
you look for dead elm trees to find morels ( mushrooms ) in an area. Any
help will be appreciated. kate

Find the morels, then look at the tree they're near....

Find live elm trees... then look for the ones that didn't make it...

On Mon, 24 May 2004 19:21:59 -0500 in
, "Kate ......"
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Thats one big problem. I have never been able to find one. I hear all the
great hunts of braggers. No one will say where they find them. Only little
hints. Mainly about an elm tree. To tell you the truth, I am not a very good
person to ask the name of any tree. I try hard to learn . Must be looking
in the wrong places. kate



Mushroomers tend to be pretty close-mouthed about where they find
things... they also tend to be like fishermen when they talk about
their bounty. "I got bushels! But, you should have been here
YESTERDAY!!"
Are there any mycological societies (read: mushroom hunting clubs) in
your area? They're usually a fine source of info, and are happy to
take newbies on field trips. They also tend to have an online
presence.
As an aside, a friend of mine put in a gazebo. He surrounded it with
store-bought tan bark (oak, I believe). It rained, a couple days later
he had morels. Go figure.

On Mon, 24 May 2004 19:21:59 -0500 in
, "Kate ......"
graced the world with this thought:

Thats one big problem. I have never been able to find one. I hear all the
great hunts of braggers. No one will say where they find them. Only little
hints. Mainly about an elm tree. To tell you the truth, I am not a very good
person to ask the name of any tree. I try hard to learn . Must be looking
in the wrong places. kate

One other thing... think "forest fire." Always a fine source for dead
trees, oak, elm, and otherwise. Not too recent, of course, maybe a
place that was hit in the last five or six years. I don't recommend
starting your own.

"Kate ......" wrote in message
...
Can anyone tell me how to id a dead elm tree. I have heard for
years,
you look for dead elm trees to find morels ( mushrooms ) in an area.
Any
help will be appreciated. kate

Elm trees have a silvery bark and toothed, flame-shaped, alternate
leaves. The canopy is usually vase shaped (gracefully widens at the
top). Sometimes the roots look like fins where they go into the
ground. Elm trees can be dead or dying for morels to fruit. Look for
trees where the bark is falling off in sheaths.

The morel season is pretty much over in the continental United States,
except in the very northern regions.

no clubs or anything like that in our area. Nor Mi. where my sister lives and
the pickens are wonderful ( for everyone but me ) My sister, is not the least
interested in the hunt. So no help there. Thanks again, kate






belly wrote:

On Mon, 24 May 2004 19:21:59 -0500 in
, "Kate ......"
graced the world with this thought:

Thats one big problem. I have never been able to find one. I hear all the
great hunts of braggers. No one will say where they find them. Only little
hints. Mainly about an elm tree. To tell you the truth, I am not a very good
person to ask the name of any tree. I try hard to learn . Must be looking
in the wrong places. kate



Mushroomers tend to be pretty close-mouthed about where they find
things... they also tend to be like fishermen when they talk about
their bounty. "I got bushels! But, you should have been here
YESTERDAY!!"
Are there any mycological societies (read: mushroom hunting clubs) in
your area? They're usually a fine source of info, and are happy to
take newbies on field trips. They also tend to have an online
presence.
As an aside, a friend of mine put in a gazebo. He surrounded it with
store-bought tan bark (oak, I believe). It rained, a couple days later
he had morels. Go figure.

Gotcha . I'll remember that.






belly wrote:

On Mon, 24 May 2004 19:21:59 -0500 in
, "Kate ......"
graced the world with this thought:

Thats one big problem. I have never been able to find one. I hear all the
great hunts of braggers. No one will say where they find them. Only little
hints. Mainly about an elm tree. To tell you the truth, I am not a very good
person to ask the name of any tree. I try hard to learn . Must be looking
in the wrong places. kate

One other thing... think "forest fire." Always a fine source for dead
trees, oak, elm, and otherwise. Not too recent, of course, maybe a
place that was hit in the last five or six years. I don't recommend
starting your own.

Yeah, no point in hunting much more this year. But I will remember your
hints. I knew there had to be certain things to look for to identify
those dead elm trees . Thank your help. Kate







"C. James Strutz" wrote:

"Kate ......" wrote in message
...
Can anyone tell me how to id a dead elm tree. I have heard for
years,
you look for dead elm trees to find morels ( mushrooms ) in an area.
Any
help will be appreciated. kate

Elm trees have a silvery bark and toothed, flame-shaped, alternate
leaves. The canopy is usually vase shaped (gracefully widens at the
top). Sometimes the roots look like fins where they go into the
ground. Elm trees can be dead or dying for morels to fruit. Look for
trees where the bark is falling off in sheaths.

The morel season is pretty much over in the continental United States,
except in the very northern regions.

"Kate ......" wrote in message ...
Can anyone tell me how to id a dead elm tree. I have heard for years,
you look for dead elm trees to find morels ( mushrooms ) in an area. Any
help will be appreciated. kate

Must be be my lucky day then, I found some fresh morels growing in my
yard, I'm not much of an mushroom person but from what I hear it's a
very coveted mushroom. They were growing underneath spruce pine trees,
no elms in sight. I checked it out carefully to see if its the real
thing and not a poisonous false morel, and yes it seems to be the real
mcoy, So anyone here know how I should cook them, or can I eat them
raw? thanks.

Oh my goodness, are you the lucky one. Can't help you with the cooking. I have never got that
close to finding one to worry about how I'd eat it. . My mother did something like this ......
dredged them in egg , then cracker crumbs and fried them in butter. Talk about yummy. Kate







steve wrote:

"Kate ......" wrote in message ...
Can anyone tell me how to id a dead elm tree. I have heard for years,
you look for dead elm trees to find morels ( mushrooms ) in an area. Any
help will be appreciated. kate

Must be be my lucky day then, I found some fresh morels growing in my
yard, I'm not much of an mushroom person but from what I hear it's a
very coveted mushroom. They were growing underneath spruce pine trees,
no elms in sight. I checked it out carefully to see if its the real
thing and not a poisonous false morel, and yes it seems to be the real
mcoy, So anyone here know how I should cook them, or can I eat them
raw? thanks.

steve wrote:
Must be be my lucky day then, I found some fresh morels growing in my
yard, I'm not much of an mushroom person but from what I hear it's a
very coveted mushroom. They were growing underneath spruce pine trees,
no elms in sight. I checked it out carefully to see if its the real
thing and not a poisonous false morel, and yes it seems to be the real
mcoy, So anyone here know how I should cook them, or can I eat them
raw? thanks.

Steve, you must be lucky. I'm not that much of a mushroom person
either, yet I feel a twinge of envy. I can't remember the last time
I actually ate a wild mushroom.
Your post got me looking on the web to find out more about morels. I
found this page and realize it should have been shown early on.
(Maybe it was, I wasn't paying that much attention:

http://www.bluewillowpages.com/mushr...els/trees.html

That answers the original question that started this thread I
believe. Also explains why you have morels with no elm trees. Humm,
I have plenty of aspens and white pines around here...

From the first page, there is this one:

http://www.bluewillowpages.com/mushr...ress_maps.html


That one is pretty informative too. I scroll down to the last map
and well, what do you know.... a dot in the southern Adirondacks.
Maybe I should get out there and look. Of course, the black flies
might eat me alive if I went into the woods. Black fly season
probably ends at the same time as morel season. There's probably a
million morels out there for that very reason (or not).

Steve (the other one) in the Adirondacks

On Tue, 25 May 2004 15:05:55 -0500 in
, "Kate ......"
graced the world with this thought:

no clubs or anything like that in our area. Nor Mi. where my sister lives and
the pickens are wonderful ( for everyone but me ) My sister, is not the least
interested in the hunt. So no help there. Thanks again, kate




I couldn't find a club in N MI, but found this, which is interesting
http://www.michiganmorels.com/

There's a club in the NW part of the state, for what it's worth.