Any Correlation?

[DChance]

Is there any correlation between the location of Chaterelles and Morels? 

I mentioned before I bought a new home with 40 acres of woods. We moved in last summer. I harvested a LOT of chaterelles last fall, but not found any morels yet this spring. It looks good, May apples everywhere (heard they grow in same types of areas) and seems to be about every other species of mushroom. Just curious is there is really any correlation to speak of?

 

[BilletHead]

    Good question but personally I find the two mushrooms in different places. To me everywhere looks god for morels but not for chanterelles . We find our Chants in more open timber and more sandy soil,

BilletHead

[DChance]

Well I have chants everywhere. Last year I could walk a 20 yard radius around my golf cart and have 2 walmart bags full in about 10 min. 

Zero morels.....kinda bums me out 

[vonreed]

I find lots of morels but have never found chanterelles where morels grow, with that said though, I don't go to my morel spots looking for chanterells.  It seems they grow lots of places, especially in the bigger timber it seems, which is more open.    I'm about had my fill of morels already,  I've been trying desperately to find a Hen of the Woods in the last couple weeks.

[BilletHead]

       Vonreed,

You are going to find the hens in the Fall,

https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/hen-woods-maitake

   If you do happen to find one out of that season please let us know ,

BilletHead

 

[vonreed]

I found my first spring Hen of the Woods last year.  I had never seen one before.  If my son hadn't deleted every photo on my phone a few months ago, I'd show a picture of it with morels in the same pic.  Probably mid April.  My next earliest was mid summer and then several in the fall.

[jdmidwest]

Morels tend to be symbiots to trees. Mostly ash, sycamore, elm, poplar. But I do find them around other trees or where trees were. 

[DChance]

I can't for the life of me find morels this year.  Usually find 100-200 this year.... 9....I walked several miles of creek bottoms tonight where normally find them. And not 1. It is actually embarrassing. 

[trythisonemv]

We found two in our yard where there haven't been trees for sixty years according my father in law but I haven't seen any where I usually find them. I think the warm up and some rain may change my luck. My wife hopes a since we got a taste ... I better find some or im in  trouble lol

[Gavin]

Chants are easy, look in Oak Hickory when it gets sweaty muggy hot after a rain. Usully mid-June before they start to fire. Found some morels last week, but looks good going forward. Haven't had time to look again. Morels like the edges, hill tops, sunny spots, thin woods. They associate with trees, but are where the are. Chants will be in the woods in the moister spots, where the hill drains mostly.