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Morel mushrooms are safe to eat, but novice hunters should be aware of "false morels," too. Many similar-looking species have wrinkled caps and are saddle-shaped, but that does not mean they are ...
Morchella esculenta is commonly known by various names: morel, common morel, true morel, morel mushroom, yellow morel, sponge morel, [15] Molly Moocher, haystack, and dryland fish. [2] In Nepal it is known as Guchi chyau. [16] The specific epithet is derived from the Latin esculenta, meaning "edible".
It is one of many related species commonly known as black morels, and until 2012 the name M. elata was broadly applied to black morels throughout the globe. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Like most members of the genus, M. elata is a popular edible fungus and is sought by many mushroom hunters .
Morchella, the true morels, is a genus of edible sac fungi closely related to anatomically simpler cup fungi in the order Pezizales (division Ascomycota).These distinctive fungi have a honeycomb appearance due to the network of ridges with pits composing their caps.
Cerioporus squamosus synonym Polyporus squamosus is a basidiomycete bracket fungus, with common names including dryad's saddle and pheasant's back mushroom. [2] It has a widespread distribution, being found in North America, Australia, and Eurasia, where it causes a white rot in the heartwood of living and dead hardwood trees.
The synonym Ptychoverpa bohemica is often used by European mycologists and it is commonly known as the early morel or the wrinkled thimble-cap. The mushroom has a pale yellow or brown thimble-shaped cap—2 to 4 cm (3 ⁄ 4 to 1 + 5 ⁄ 8 in) in diameter by 2 to 5 cm (3 ⁄ 4 to 2 in) long—that has a surface wrinkled and ribbed with brain ...
Jul. 8—If you see an elm tree leaf with an odd, zigzag-shaped missing section, Maine forestry officials want to hear about it. It could be evidence of a new and potentially destructive insect ...
Hypsizygus ulmarius, also known as the elm oyster mushroom, [1] and less commonly as the elm leech, [2] elm Pleurotus, is an edible fungus. It has often been confused with oyster mushrooms in the Pleurotus genus but can be differentiated easily as the gills are either not decurrent or not deeply decurrent. [ 3 ]