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Morchella esculenta (commonly known as common morel, morel, yellow morel, true morel, morel mushroom, and sponge morel) is a species of fungus in the family Morchellaceae of the Ascomycota. It is one of the most readily recognized of all the edible mushrooms and highly sought after.
(Morchella esculenta) In the spring, morel mushrooms can be found in Minnesota fields and forests. [22] They primarily grow in the southwest, northern, and middle parts of the state, [23] and are popular with gourmet cooks. [13] 1984 Photograph Grace: Grace depicts a man sitting "at a table bowed in thankful prayer before a modest meal."
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.
Minnesota was the first to declare a species; Morchella esculenta was chosen as its state mushroom in 1984, and codified into Statute in 2010. [1] Five other states, Colorado, Missouri, Washington, Massachusetts, and New York [2] [3] [4] have had state mushrooms proposed.
Morchella species have an ascocarp with a sponge-like pileus, with a hollow stipe and pileus. Verpa species have a cup-like or thimble-shaped, smooth or wrinkled pileus above a hollow stipe. Disciotis has a cup-like pileus with vein-like hymenial folds and a small or nonexistent stipe. [4] The ascospores are ellipsoid, smooth, and usually ...
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.
The cone-shaped cap is rounded or pointed, about 3–10 centimetres (1–4 inches) tall with a honeycomb-like network of ridged openings. The whitish stipe is shorter than the cap, sometimes bulbous, wrinkled and/or stained yellow, and hollow.
Morchella vulgaris is a widespread fungus of the family Morchellaceae . It was originally described in 1801 as a form of the common yellow morel ( Morchella esculenta ) by mycologist Christiaan Hendrik Persoon , but was later recombined as a distinct species by Samuel Gray .