Light Colored Morels

[Birdgetter]

Hey everyone, here’s a picture of two morels picked in the same spot. From the Goldendale area. Does anyone know what causes the difference in color? Maybe pianoman could help me out.


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[Buckhunter24]

Tagging along for answers i found some light ones the other day and was wondering too

[pianoman9701]

These can both be morchella family, either morchella esculenta or morchella snyderi. The same species can produce different colors.

[NRA4LIFE]

Those look kind of like the yellow morels we found back in Missouri.  I believe most out here are blacks.

[pianoman9701]

Those look kind of like the yellow morels we found back in Missouri.  I believe most out here are blacks.

Most are black, but there are a lot of blondes, especially early in the season and around orchards.

[pickardjw]

Found some sprouting in the RV park this weekend...they were more of a gray, sickly looking color. Definitely not any I was interested in picking!

[pianoman9701]

Found some sprouting in the RV park this weekend...they were more of a gray, sickly looking color. Definitely not any I was interested in picking!

You missed out. Morchella tomentosa/grey morel has the most intense flavor of all morels.

[MtnMuley]

90% of the time the grays are the last Morels to pop in my areas. Find blondes through the season, usually more towards the beginning of the season.

[pickardjw]

Found some sprouting in the RV park this weekend...they were more of a gray, sickly looking color. Definitely not any I was interested in picking!

You missed out. Morchella tomentosa/grey morel has the most intense flavor of all morels.

Being right next to the black water connection point was definitely a factor in my decision 

[pianoman9701]

Good call! 

[270Flat]

We find both black and blonde in the same spots. We have been out a few times but it all seems like it’s at least two weeks behind normal years. Went out today and found lots of fresh blondes and a real boomer. Biggest to date since we’ve been foraging.
Can’t post pics for some reason.

[270Flat]

Pic

[NRA4LIFE]

Wait, looks like a long arm!  Nice find. 

[270Flat]

He’s a fisherman so knows the long arm trick! 😂 no long arm on this one.
Definitely a big shroom that’ll eat delicious.

[Okanagan]

Found some sprouting in the RV park this weekend...they were more of a gray, sickly looking color. Definitely not any I was interested in picking!

You missed out. Morchella tomentosa/grey morel has the most intense flavor of all morels.

Yep, picked a lot of grey morels when we lived in south central British Columbia.  They are delicious and IME tended to be the largest size.  As known, there is often a big crop of morels in the first year after a forest fire, but in the fine silica dirt where I found most of them, I could never get the grit out of them.  The post fire morels tended to be black colored ones.

One year a friend’s horse pasture was covered with large, hefty weight grey morels, gunny sacks of them over a good five acres alongside a small river.    We should have tried to find a place to sell them.  The next year there were only two or three morels in the same place.   Like many of you, I had certain places where I could count on finding morels every spring.  Am having to start over finding such spots in WA!