Morchella rotunda (Pers.) Boud. |
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.
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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