E. lycoperdon grows typically on dead alder branches, logs, and stumps in wet places beside rivers, streams and wetlands; it is also found growing on dead elm, beech, poplar, hawthorn, elder, hornbeam, hazel, and pine trees often after late frosts in spring and in the autumn.

Moose browse on swollen green stubs of alder branches, bald eagles hunt for fish and the occasional Dall sheep will make an appearance on a rock perch.

The newt kicked and squealed, pointing upward to the eel draped in the alder branches.

My own bay slowed obligingly as Jamie's chestnut paused, then turned aside at his urging into a clearing, half-hidden by an overhang of alder branches.

In the morning, they seined fish out of the river with wide mesh baskets made of cattail leaves and alder branches and cords made of stringy bark.

Each tree had a meaning and significance of its own, and Gwydion guessed Bran's name by the alder branch Bran carried, the alder being one of Bran's prime symbols.

With swiftness veritably supernatural, a brown hairy creature, a being that was not wholly man, not wholly animal, but some hellish mixture of both, sprang from amid the alder branches and snatched Adele from Olivier's embrace.

They took up their walking sticks, the hazel shoot and the alder branch.

He brines the salmon in garlic, soy and brown sugar before smoking it over alder branches for a day, then putting it up in sterilized jars.

We added more green alder branches to the slow fire in the smokehouse.