# No more morels

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [May 22, 2014, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-morels/689025 "2014-05-22T19:20:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Holdsworth\_Effect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/848f3c/32.png) [@The\_Holdsworth\_Effect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Holdsworth_Effect)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2014, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-morels/689025/21 "2014-05-24T04:57:45Z")

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Fungi Perfecti has black and true morel spawn in their 2014 catalog. I cannot think of a more fascinating company. Our morels have not appeared for several years, and I am thinking of getting some. Morels sauteed with leeks, a nice red, and broiled asparagus. Yum.

Paul Stamets is a VERY interesting person.

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**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2014, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-more-morels/689025/22 "2014-05-24T05:14:50Z")

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> [@johnpost](#):
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> they eat wood.
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> weather, temperature and rain, determines if they will fruit.

Yes they do. Old apple tree orchards are a good place to look for them. They like the rotting roots of the old trees.

I had a couple old apple trees in my yard that I cut down. A year or two later I had a flush of morels in the early spring around the old stumps for a radius of about 20 feet. They reappeared for 3 or so years and are now done because all the roots have rotted away, the food source is gone.

This is probably the problem that **solost** has and the morels may not come back.

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