Morels, Truffles and other Spring Mushrooms
by Michael W. Beug Email: beugm@evergreen.edu
The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA
Slide 6.
What has been called Morchella atrotomentosa is the gray morel that shows up in burn areas, usually late in the season, often in August. Under a hand lens you can see beautiful wooly hairs on the ridges and pits of this species. A real bonanza can come one year after a forest fire when these and other morels often fruit in stupendous abundance. The problem out West is that in the past few years troupes of commercial mushroom hunters follow the burns and a few are very protective of their collecting areas, so be careful.
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