Is this a morel?

[LuketheDog]

Look at how the cap is not connected to the stem. Not a morel. The new one growing also does not look like a young morel.

@Dsnow9 it's not a morel, the cap isn't connected at the bottom like the pic @44hunter45 posted...

 

[JLS]

I learned a lot in this thread.

 

[Nick87]

Try to anyway and let us know what happens. Kidding kind of.

 

[Gr8bawana]

Try to anyway and let us know what happens. Kidding kind of.

What could possibly go wrong?

 

[Saranac84]

Along the Front Range you typically find yellow morels around late April/early May near rivers or under cottonwood. Black morels show up early summer in burns. The timing alone makes it suspect.

 

[Dsnow9]

Well I don’t know what they are, they are hollow, they don’t smell bad.

here are two more from today...

 

[Hunting Wife]

Definitely not morels. They all around don’t look right, and the timing is wrong.

 

[Deleted member 28227]

Yeah don’t screw with mushrooms lol

I’ve seen how people do with bear identification...

 

[NoWiser]

I’ll repeat it. Those are 100% NOT morels. They are stinkhorns.

 

[westbranch]

Dig it up to see if there is an egg like the pics here. Maybe you can find some "eggs" that haven't grown yet which are edible...

Phallus hadriani - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus) - Woodland Trust

Stinkhorn, as the name suggests, is a pungent fungus. Find out all about it, from where it grows to what it is used for.

www.woodlandtrust.org.uk

 

[dcopas78]

Yea definitely not morels.

 

[Cogreeny]

Not a morel. We do have morels in colorado I pick and eat them along with other edible species every year.

 

[HighWildFree]

Every mushroom is edible at least once

 

[Steelsearchin]

Definitely not morels!! Wrong time of year, but I guess anything is possible. Latest (or maybe earliest, depending on how you look at it) find for me was a black morel on December 29th, but that doesn't really count as it was on a mountain in Maui.

 

[Pucky Freak]

I won’t rule out the possibility of a September morel.

However, make sure to have someone take a video of you popping those stinkhorns into your mouth, so we can get a nice view of your puckering face

 

[Mosquito]

The best advice i ever got.....
There are old mushroom hunters and there are bold mushroom hunters but there is NO old bold mushroom hunters

 

[longbow51]

As a PSA I offer the following advice: I'm not an expert on any fungus, but this is not something that should be learned on the internet. I'm not at all implying that the OP was going to pop it into a skillet based on opinions on a newsgroup. There's always some local guru who will know for sure. Usually mushroom toxicity is mild, but can be serious, so this is one of those things you learn from someone who knows the field well.

 

[MO Betta]

Speaking of stinkhorns, I was just out walking the pups around the house when the scent hit me from about 15 feet away. Flies were swarming it. Get a really good idea of the sac it "grows" out of with this one. There is another that you can just see to the right of the stalk in the first photo that hasn't popped up yet.

 

[Dsnow9]

Speaking of stinkhorns, I was just out walking the pups around the house when the scent hit me from about 15 feet away. Flies were swarming it. Get a really good idea of the sac it "grows" out of with this one. There is another that you can just see to the right of the stalk in the first photo that hasn't popped up yet.


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Those are definitely the same!