Repeatedly searched - never found. What are your "elusive treasure" mushrooms?

I've been trying to find morels (Morchella sp.) for years now. I mapped meadows in my vicinity and thoroughly searched the ground around ash trees. Nothing.

Same for black chanterelle (Craterellus cornucopioides). Every year I see pictures from successful hunters with baskets full of them, but either they really don't grow in my area or I'm unable to see them.

Those are my top two, but of course there are more I'd really like to find sometime: Any edible Hydnum sp., lumpy bracket (Polyporus umbellatus), some Leccinum sp. like red caps and, of course, any edible truffles. I might try to search for truffles this year. They are "protected" in my country, but there are mycologists who claim there is an abundance of them and their status as endangered is based on misinformation.

What about you?

psyspoop,
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I'm very much a generalist and don't necessarily ever set out to find anything specifically; I'm more generally interested in finding what all exists in my area. But, one group that I really would like to start finding and sequencing from my locality is the truffles (or hypogeous ascomycetes in general). I don't think we get any of the well-known edible truffles around me but it'd be super cool to start developing a list of the species in my area, especially since it's basically a complete unknown where I live. One other that I've been interested in trying to find are Gyromitras just because I think they look cool. Haven't found any in my local area but I did find two or three different species within like 10 minutes of each other up in the Colorado Rockies this past week.

gonzo0815,

There is a German mycologist who says that truffles are so abundant that you can basically dig around any beech tree and find them. He found over 1000 spots around the town of Osnabrück. But he also has a dog helping him, so it might not be that easy :)

psyspoop,
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I do personally believe they're generally very abundant in just about any woodland area, but it is tough to find exactly where they're at. One guy I know that's an ecologist at a park mostly dominated by red oaks has found a few very interesting specimens simply by walking through with a very powerful leaf blower preparing an area for a prescribed burn. He simply found them by blowing off the top layer of leaf debris and finding them sticking out of the soil a little bit.

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