winter oysters grow in massive clusters almost always low at the base of the tree trunk or from a root underground. the temperature has been 50 for 2 days now. this is a choice edible well worth eating.....and no bugs to compete with.i found 12 lbs last year right around this time, the conditions are right so keep your eyes peeled.

50 degress? WoW!

It has warmed up here in Michigan a little but no where near 50. Send some of that warm weather north would ya?

Maybe we can spark a few early morels? Hmm Am I jumping the gun just a little?

yeah dude...cabin fever for sure. still no oysters dangit

I found a dozen or so brown, gilled mushrooms about the dia. of a 50 cent piece yesterday under a pine tree next to my barn. I picked one & it seemed fresh. I didn't know they (mushrooms) grew when it's this cold.

yeah....some mushrooms even coat their cap with polysaccarides < slime coating> which act as an antifreeze so they can grow in winter. there are at least 3 edibles that grow in december < velvet foot, plurotus eryngii and plurotus pulmonarius> and i usually start seeing parrot hygrocybe around late february and early march. im sure there are others as well.......mushrooms will surprise and fascinate you with their biology time and time again.