So a good lunch, great company and a good harvest, but Juan, as usual wanted
another go
at the big river. So away we go to an area of the river which flooded a couple
of months
ago. We began to get more morchellas but, to our surprise, we began to find on
fallen trunks
and bushes an enormous amount of auricularia judae. I and Juan know this
mushroom well, but Jose Manuel had never seen so many at one time.
It’s a fungus that is nearly always
found on the dead branches of elder trees especially
after heavy rains-this being the case, so they both were busy with their
cameras while
i was busy harvesting. The jelly ear or jew’s ear as it is often called-after
the unlikely
story that Judas Iscariot hanged himself on an elder tree-they are too springy
for that
grim purpose.
Therefore, more next day on drying
and cooking these beautifull little mushrooms and
more about our next forays after Saint George’s mushrooms and other Spring
specials.
Cheers.
Ken
Pettit.
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