Tornado Alley (PROG)

[Zorax]

Morels are amazing. I might as well admit to one of the stupidest and naive nature mistakes I've ever done is with Morels.

Had two gigantic oaks on my and my neighbors property adjacent and they both came down within a year of each other in the second year of my 10 year past residence. Within a couple of years, he and I had a tremendous crop of Morels from around those stumps. One other surviving big tree was still the shade.

This is before I really knew how to id them and how valuable they really were. I had so much of what I didn't know I was mowing them before I stopped to look at them.
Neighbor told me what I had, I tripled checked with natural department and such and sure enough they were. Sadly, I didn't research enough and was just pulling them up. And like a moron, I even gave away about 3 pounds to a relative.

As you know, mushrooms we see are just the 'flower' and not the mother which can be acres around below you. The proper way is to cut them with a sharp knife above the ground. My neighbor screamed at me when he saw me out there. Not only did I kill my golden goose, I cut his crop down probably by 50% but some of his was still producing the following year. Mine were gone. We estimated the base was possibly as large as half of each of our yards. There were identical mushies in other areas to ours along some fences.

https://www.discovery.com/nature/Giant-Mushroom-Largest-Organism-Ever