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The specific epithet bohemica refers to Bohemia (now a part of the Czech Republic), [12] where Krombholz originally collected the species. [2] The mushroom is commonly known as the "early morel", [13] "early false morel", or the "wrinkled thimble-cap". [14]
Gyromitra esculenta, a false morel. When gathering morels for mushrooms, care must be taken to distinguish them from potentially poisonous lookalikes. While a great many morel lookalikes, and even morels themselves are toxic or cause gastrointestinal upset when consumed raw, some, such as Gyromitra esculenta remain toxic even after conventional cooking methods.
Beyond their deliciousness, morels are also notoriously elusive, and expensive. Mushroom collectors are famously protective of their hunting sites. Beyond their deliciousness, morels are also ...
Gyromitra esculenta is a member of a group of fungi known as "false morels", so named for their resemblance to the highly regarded true morels of the genus Morchella. The grouping includes other species of the genus Gyromitra , such as G. infula (elfin saddle), G. caroliniana and G. gigas (snow morel).
No matter how experienced you are, if you aren’t 100% sure of a mushroom’s identification, don’t eat it.
The cap of the false morel Verpa bohemica hangs free from attachment to the stipe. Morchella populiphila is morphologically indistinguishable from its eastern North American relative M. punctipes . Morchella populiphila is a distinct morel because of its cap attachment and its habitat, and it is unlikely to be mistaken for other species.
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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.