Gyromitra esculenta    (Pers.:Fr.) Fr. 

common name(s) : False Morel, Turban Fungus 

New classification: Ascomycota/Pezizomycotina/Pezizomycetes/Pezizomycetidae/Pezizales/Discinaceae  
Former classification: Ascomycota/Hymenoascomycetes/Pezizomycetideae/Pezizales/Pezizineae/Helvellaceae  

edibility : deadly poisonous

potential confusions with  Gyromitra esculenta toxicity of Gyromitra esculenta genus Gyromitra  

The cap is brain-shaped, composed of folded lobes contorted in all directions, and white margin adhering to the stem, red-brown to brown-black, with a well differentiated stem, white or russet, short and irregular, furrowed.

The fertile surface is smooth.

It grows on the ground, in coniferous woods, mostly in higher altitudes, on a rather acid soil.

The fruiting period takes place from March to June.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 8 cm (between 2 and 15 cm)
  total height approximately 7 cm (between 2 and 16 cm)
  width of stem approximately 25 mm (between 6 and 40 mm)

Distinctive features : sorry, no English description yet

Gyromitra esculenta is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Gyromitra esculenta in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Gyromitra esculenta in the forest of Rambouillet



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