I met a couple who do this every year and they told me that the black morels usually appear first followed by the yellow and then the most popular white...you're supposed to keep your eyes on the ground ahead of you and they're usually near the new green foliage or any leaves left behind from fall...look under brush, near apple trees or ash.

I'd eat raw oysters before I'd eat wild mushrooms. There was just a story in the local paper about a guy who needs a liver transplant from eating mushrooms they had just picked.

"Novices" SHOULD NOT be out mushrooming. Every year there are experts that die from eating the wrong kind.

Oregon and Wisconsin are great places to look for great morrels and other good ones...as someone said though, know what you're picking...

We always went morel hunting near Richmond Indiana where i grew up..My Grandma would then fry them up and they were ever so delicious..Thanks for letting me have a great memory of mushroom hunting in Spring!!

Walked out to my vegetable/herb garden in Plymouth, MA a few years ago and found the whole thing covered with a crop of morels. Delicious. Never happened before, hasn't happened since - go figure.

BTW, it's essentially impossible to get into trouble with morels - nothing that looks like them is fatal and few other things come up in the Spring anyway. Not so, of course, with the Fall mushrooms. A few Amanita in the stroganoff, anyone?

Lots of people eat "honeycomb" morels in Southern Indiana. My parents, granparents, aunts, uncles, etc often go out for an hour and come back with a breadbag full. Always eaten fried, by the way, just like almost every other type of food in Southern Indiana!

I've never known anyone who got sick from eating the wrong kind of wild mushroom, but then I suppose there are more idiots from the city wandering around the woods than there used to be.

BTW there's a pretty good website at:
http://www.conservation.state.mo.us/nathis/mushrooms/mushroom/

... which discusses various types and how to distinguish edible from poisonous mushrooms.

Everytime I take someone mushroom picking, they end up dying on me after dinner
I am not doing it anymore.Too much trouble.

ttt

Any fashion tips for mushroom pickers, ? If you gotta go, might as well be stylish.