Morchella rotunda    (Pers.) Boud. 

common name(s) : Round Morel 

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

synonyms: Morchella esculenta-rotunda 

edibility : edible if well cooked

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The cap is egg-shaped honeycombed cap, with a spongy appearance, yellow-ochre, with a well differentiated, short, whitish stem.

The flesh is greyish or cream; its taste is mild; the odour is faint and pleasant.

The fertile surface is smooth. The spore print is cream.

It grows on the ground, in cool areas, clayey and sandy copses, woodlands, pathsides, with nettles, on a rather calcareous soil, mostly with ash and elm, also with apple trees, poplar.

The fruiting period takes place from May to June.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 12 cm (between 5 and 20 cm)
  total height approximately 11 cm (between 5 and 20 cm)
  width of stem approximately 55 mm (between 30 and 80 mm)

Chemical tests : asci tips not blued with Melzer's reagent.

Distinctive features : globular to egg-shaped blond-brown honeycombed cap with irregular round pits, not conical; no vallecule (free room between cap and top of stem); later in the season

Morchella rotunda is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is occasional, more generally speaking .



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