π₯ A severely burned forest in Washington State, USA. Burnt fir tree forests are the best places to forage for the elusive morel mushroom. Photos taken by me a few years ago on a morel mushroom hunt.
Oh shit, that's terrible! I hope no one died. :(
All survived!
Oh good!
Itβs beautiful to see how life springs from death
I thought so too. It felt so morbidly serene out there. Nature is lit.
Please full-screen the pic!
Thank you for the recommendation that photo is truly a masterpiece did you take that yourself?
I did! I thought the scenery was breathtakingly macabre, so I snapped this photo right before heading home.
Very cool I would submit it to natgeo or something if I were you
Iβll consider that. Thank you!
But you need to bring your morel compass.
Oh man I love morel mushrooms!
Morels from a year old burn can have a sulphuric/bitter flavor. Usually we give a burn 2-3 years before we harvest from an area. Just a personal preference so feel free to do you.
I've been told that not nearly as many show up after the first year, but I've never tried going to one that's more than a year old. This pic was the only time I've ever gone. Planning in possibly going this weekend though! I can say I didn't notice a sulfuric taste in the morels we harvested from this burn area.
Yah, i would agree that there are less the following years. We really prefer recently logged areas over burns. Basically you are looking for groound that has been disturbed in some way. So a logged area that all tore up provides alot of hidey places for them to grow. Im also a little cautious of recent burn areas because they sometimes use a fire suppression chemical from planes to put those fires out. Just a thought.
That makes sense!
Shrooms heh
Shroomers!
I love those mushrooms. We call them dry land fish here in Eastern kentucky
Dry land fish?? Lol
Yeah I know. I never they were morels until I seen your post. I've always heard them called dry land fish. How do u cook yours. We batter ours and fry em up.
That's such an interesting name! Lol Why though? They don't taste fishy at all!
I simply sautΓ©e mine in butter, garlic and onion. The natural flavors are so wonderfully strong, and I don't like to cover them up with much else.
I'm not sure why they are called that. That's what my grandpa called them and his before him. Yeah I've had em sautΓ©ed and I like em that way also. Tried them on a burger and it was good.
I've used them as a topping on a wild mushroom pizza! It had truffle oil as well.
Whazzat?
In Europe we have a toxic doppelganger of this guy. Gyromitra esculenta, that baddie did some serious harm to the commune that I lived in. Like 10 ambulances and multiple pumped stomachs.