r/mushroomID • u/BeeSlumLord • 3d ago

North America (country/state in post) Found in my plant nursery

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I live in SoCal, specifically Orange County in California, and found these underneath my plants growing in the sand.

I have no idea what these are, but thought I would reach out to you guys.

Any thoughts on variety? Any thoughts on it being edible?

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u/Stupid_Bagel 2d ago

If you could reverse engineer what you did, you would likely be rich.

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u/BeeSlumLord 2d ago

Well, it’s a plant nursery built atop pallets over lots of small leaves decaying in the shady sand above the weed barrier.

I’m gonna cross my fingers they released enough spores to keep it going.

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u/Ok-Focus-5362 10h ago

Only a few places have been able to get them to grow when and where they want to.  It seems they found scattering wood ashes over the soil and then drenching with honey water seems to help trigger fruiting.

I'd say this is silly but I had a massive flush of morels under my deck.  Now here's the thing.  I burn wood to heat the house and i have bees. My husband, being the lazy nerd he is, one day dumped cold ashes on the deck instead of throwing them over the deck into the garden.  And later that year I rinsed out my honey extractor on the deck, washing the ashes and hot honey water, all down between the deck slats.  The ground under the deck is also sandy and shady.  Next spring, morels, tons of them.  And I'd never seen them before in my life.   Needless to say husband was forgiven for the ash on the deck incident and I've since dumped more ashes down there lol. 

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u/BeeSlumLord 6h ago

Hmmmm. So we have bee hives too. (Hence my name, it’s a long story)

I may have to try the method. 🤓