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Morel Mushrooms - Why Are They So Hard to Find?

Significant reasons why morels are considered a rarity and hard to search out are their limited lifespan, uncommon rising patterns and propagation methods.

Morel harvesting season typically begins in mid- to late spring, and lasts less than three weeks. Within a very modest range of latitude or even elevation, that morel fruiting season might range by as much as weeks, while producing abundantly in a single area and, a number of miles away, barely producing at all.

Morels are extraordinarily sensitive to environmental conditions. Demanding specific soil moisture and relative humidity, needing precise sunlight levels simultaneously with exact air and soil temperature, and counting on prior year's conditions to help the fungus set up its root-like network signifies that morels will only produce if all conditions are met at precisely the correct time in its lifespan.

Morels sprout and mature in a really brief span of time - mere days in most cases. It's this uncommon progress spurt that contributes to the parable that morels mature overnight (even immediately). A buddy's sister, once they have been younger, used to tantalize him throughout picking time by having him close his eyes, turn around, after which open his eyes to see a mature morel where he was sure none had been moments earlier. He was well into his teens earlier than she admitted to trickery by spotting the morel before she spun him around!

Sadly, morels also pass maturity and collapse into pulpy masses in mere days, as well, making the harvest a rush against time.

Equally perplexing and frustrating is the morel's method of propagation. Although morels depend on spores contained within the fruit to reseed, the real methodology of producing fruit every spring is the network of spider web-like filaments that it develops less than a couple of inches beneath the soil. Imagine a carpet of veins and capillaries running via the leafy compost of a woodland floor, and also you will have an approximate picture of the dozens of yards of fibres that spread morels throughout a given growth area.

This network does not start to develop within the fruiting season. Somewhat, it starts the summer before, after the dying morels release their airborne spores. These spores progress by way of three key phases of development and growth, until the web of connecting root fibres have infiltrated the soil substrate. In early spring, these new networks will then produce lumpy nodes just beneath the surface that, when conditions are optimum, will become morel fruits.

But the process doesn't stop there. That delicate network will remain intact underground, surviving among the harshest winters in North America. While parts of the fibrous web could also be broken or disturbed, the remainder will survive, providing a nutritional link for subsequent season's morel crop.

This habit means that, even when there is no fruit production one season, or when extensive harvesting appears to strip all spore-producing morels from an space, the following season, if conditions are optimal, an considerable crop could occur, but disappear within days if harvesters miss the key window of picking opportunity.