I work for a heating & cooling company, my job requires me to go to alot of different locations. Yesterday while working on a furnace I noticed in the ladys...
Good find. I always look for broad leafed weeds when gathering lawn mushrooms or I ask if the area was treated with weed killer or insecticides. I suspect...
I need to ask a favor of the members of this group. I am doing a presentation for a 4th grade class where I am dressing up as a mushroom (specifically a fly...
Hi Everyone, I am wondering if anyone has a good recipe for either Laccaria ochrepurpurea or Entoloma abortivum. They are quite common here and good sauteed,...
I've been seeing shaggy manes all over Dublin roadsides this week. I even stopped to get a few on a rural road. They've got a pretty short shelf life, don't...
today at Cook Forest in W.Pa., Hygrophorus flavodiscus, H. fuligineus. and H.chrysodon., a pristine Grifola frondosa (sheephead), several Tricholoma spp.,...
Saw lots of Tricholoma portentosum today in a pine plantation. It is a decent edible and one of the better Tricholomas. It is an unattractive gray with...
`Evening… I am not sure who puts all the work into planning the annual OMS banquet, but I wanted to say "thank you" to whomever orchestrated the event. The...
Hi Elizabeth, My wife and I organized this years banquet (mostly my wife!). Every two years we move it to a new location and different board members volunteer...
Hi AKHUNI & ALL have NO fear about the sulphur contents in the chicken-of-the-woods (sulphur shelves). The "sulphur" in the name applies ONLY to the color of...
Greetings MYCOPOSSUM & ALL... ....hope that you all had a wonderfull turkey and that all the leftovers are GONE by now! I'm so glad to find another myco who...
FYI, The OMS now has it's own domain name although it's still hosted at Denison University. The new web address is: www.ohiomushroom.org The old address will...
At the end of March I will be driving back to my home Colorado from Boston. I'll be passing through Ohio, Illinois, etc., and was wondering when the mushroom...
My earliest morel record is March 29th. If traveling west in March, it might be a good idea to take a southern route, say through Tennessee and Arkansas. It...
Hello, I put a picture in the photo section in the folder named Need ID Help. It was taken by Joe Strong. It looks to me like Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca but...
Hello everyone! Glad to have something to post: There is going to be a Morel hunting seminar given by Theresa Maybrier at Fin, Feather, Fur Outfitters in...
Howdy, As a newbie to mushroom/fungi hunting, I would enjoy hearing more about members' discoveries. What location and environment do you hunt? How do you...
For those of you that may not know, there is a good website for Morel sightings: www.morels.com There is a link for Ohio. They are starting to find them in...
Hey- Jerry was wise to point out the Ohio message board at Morels.com. It's VERY active, and a good place to read about hunting tips, war stories, and when...
Where to look: Under dead trees (mostly elms with some bark still on tree) Under old apple trees. Under living tulip poplar and ash. Old railroad right of...
I went to my best black Morel woods tonight and found only six. They should be up good in five days in this woods. I always find several hundred in it within a...
I have never found great amounts of black morels here in Ohio. Could someone advise me on what type of areas are productive and they type of trees they favor...