Okay, you find them in early spring in hilly (higher latitudes, mountainous) around areas where poplars grow and when the poplar leaves have opened to the size of a "squirrel's ear" (Mr. Clifford wisdom)... The best way to find um is to go two days after rain... And rather than walk around lookin' for them just sit down in one spot and study our 30 feet in all directions... They will look like, ahhhh, how to say this??? Okay, they will look like small erections... Most won't be over 4 inches but that's what they will look like... The reason you sit in one place is because it gives you an opportunity to be lower as well as an opportunity to find several before getting up to cut them... Never pull them out unless you have an onion bag to carry them in so the spores will fall back to the ground to reseed them... I cut mine with sizzors which leaves the root...
There ya'll go... That's more than I should have told ya'll about "mergals" 'cause we hillbillies go a code when it comes to "shrooms"...
Little review... Poplars in early leafing... Hilly wooded countryside or mountains... Stay low... Work slow... Erections...