GROWING GOURMET - Anto2ni.it

GROWTH PARAMETERS 403
Figure 357. This 4 lb. Morel was discovered in a Figure 358. The freak occurrence of Morels popping
backyard after flood waters receded, up from nursery grown, potted Phlox plants still
mystifies me. This discovery steered me onto a fruitless
path of experimentation.
U A rain soaked and decomposing straw bale in the middle of a wheat field yielded an enormous
Morel weighing several pounds.
U From the ruins of a house destroyed by fire in Idaho, huge Morels were found in a basement coal
bin. The strain I cloned from these mushrooms is known as "M-ll" and is featured in this book.
I A local nursery was selling Phlox plants and from every pot Morels were sprouting. (See Figure 358.)
U An old timer recently told me that, after shooting a chicken-killing dog one autumn, he was
shocked to find Morels fruiting in a circle around the decomposingcarcass the following spring. (I
forgot to ask him whether or not he ate the Morels....)
I Recently, an excited women called me from Napa Valley, California. To her family's utter disbelief
they found a Morel fruiting from the ashes of their indoor fireplace. The fireplace had not been
used for 6 months. They have no idea how it got there.
U Near Vancouver, Washington one of my students planted Morel spawn into the ashes of his barbecue
grill which was located on a verandah of his condominium. He was amazed to find Morels
popping up from his hibachi several months later.
Baffling and beguiling, Morels continue to tease us with their peculiar sense of humor. If any readers
know of similarly unusual encounters of the Morel kind, I would like to know. Please write me do
Fungi Perfecti, EQ. Box 7634, Olympia, Wa. 98507 USA.
PDF compression, OCR, web-optimization with CVISION's PdfCompressor