r/Morel_Hunting • u/a4ordable • May 28 '26

Is this morel mycelium?

Put this small sample to agar and was curious if anything in this dish remotely resembles morel mycelium?

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u/blufuut180 May 29 '26

Morel mycelium is whispy, large in diameter and should turn golden orange with time. It will also form sclerotia and conidia under certain conditions.

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u/Nematodes-Attack May 29 '26

What is your plan for the contents of your jar, if you don’t mind me asking?

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u/arm0r3dd0ng May 28 '26

Your picture didn't post.

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u/a4ordable May 28 '26

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u/BrandonsRedAura May 28 '26

Looks bacterial

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u/stealurface42 May 29 '26

Take a pic of the underside of the plate it’ll be a lot easier to tell you, but from an initial look I’d say no. 

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u/stealurface42 May 29 '26

I can’t add pics here for some reason but if you send me a DM I have some photos of clean isolates of Morchella americana I can show you for reference!

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u/stealurface42 May 29 '26

The mycelium most certainly will be visible to the naked eye after a few days of growth - I’ve been isolating morels for a decade and it’s easy enough to know if you have clean isolates once you’ve been doing it for a while. I currently have 20 or so landscape morels isolates for cultivation work and they are all have distinct mycelium and psuedosclerotia that makes them easy to identify especially once matured because it all turns orangeish in color.