Morels, Truffles and other Spring Mushrooms
by Michael W. Beug Email: beugm@evergreen.edu
The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA
Slide 5.
True morels, like these black morels, are ridged and pitted with a
stem that is fused to the bottom of the cap and a hollow interior. Black
morels appear in many habitats, sometimes even randomly in my garden or
in a friend's pasture. Old apple orchards are a great place to look. They
can fruit abundantly in bark mulch one year after new construction. A few
years ago friends and I gathered bathtubs full of black morels near a newly
constructed freeway interchange, though I did worry a little about lead
poisoning from the car exhaust and also about herbicides that may have
been used in the landscaped beds.
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