A friend & I went to a hillside looking for chantrels but found so much more than we were expecting. Not only did we find shrooms, but the creek bottom was about 20 degrees cooler. Yay!
I enjoy calling blacks by their real name, "Death Horns"! You tell someone that and they won't eat them, makes more for me. That is one of the most delicious mushroom I can find here in Piedmont NC. Usually will be under beech trees, or at least there has always been a beech tree close by when I find them.
Wade, yup chick of the woods. This is the time I usually find them. Funny how such little distance can make such a difference in the growth of shrooms.
I try for morels, but the place I use to find them got hit by the inland hurricane we had 4 yrs ago & it really changed the habitat. I haven't found any there since. Doesn't stop me from looking though. I'm waiting for another rain to see what else pops up. & yes "death horns" scared me too!