🇺🇸 yellow morel - 🇩🇪 Speise-Morchel - 🇪🇪 Ümarmürkel - 🇷🇺 Сморчок съедобный 5/16/26
🆔 Morchella esculenta (L.) Pers.
ℹ️ Hymenium: Fertile surface smooth, lining deep pits and honeycomb-like depressions; ridges sterile, pale cream to yellow-ochre, darkening slightly with age
ℹ️ Cap: Ovoid to broadly conical, hollow, attached to stipe at the lower margin; surface strongly pitted and ridged, yellowish, ochre, tan to pale brown
ℹ️ Hymenium Attachment: Apothecial, fused to the stipe along the lower cap margin
ℹ️ Stipe: Cylindrical to clavate, hollow, whitish to cream, finely granular or furfuraceous, sometimes broadened at the base
⚪ Spore print white to pale cream
🌳🌾 Facultatively mycorrhizal (hardwoods, conifers, grass plants), in woodlands, meadows, orchards, disturbed ground and calcareous soils
👑 Choice edible after thorough cooking, toxic raw/insufficiently cooked
📏 Fruit body medium to large, stipe ~2–9 × 2–5 cm
📐 Cap ∅ ~2–7 cm, height ~2–10 cm
🔪 Thin, brittle, whitish to pale cream, hollow, unchanging when cut
🧪 No KOH reaction
👃 Pleasant, earthy to faintly spermatic
👅 Mild, nutty, rich when cooked (dried)
🔬 Spores ellipsoid, smooth, hyaline, ~17–22 × 9–11 µm, asci cylindrical, 8-spored, ~220–350 × 16–20 µm, paraphyses filiform to slightly enlarged apically
🔤 Classic honeycomb-like yellow-brown morel
🇺🇸 yellow morel - 🇩🇪 Speise-Morchel - 🇪🇪 Ümarmürkel - 🇷🇺 Сморчок съедобный