Wrinkled thimble cap
Verpa bohemica
Poisonous: never pick it to eat.
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At a glance
- Scientific name
- Verpa bohemica
- Class
- Pezizomycetes
- Order
- Pezizales
- Family
- Morchellaceae
- Under the cap
- Smooth
- Cap
- Bell
- Stem
- Bare
- Lives by
- Breaking down dead matter
- Season
- Spring
- Habitat
- Broadleaf forest
- Spore print
- Yellow
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- Its Latin name bohemica points to Bohemia, where it was first described in the 1800s.
- It is sometimes called an early morel, but it belongs to a different genus than true morels.
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Similar fungi
- Common morel
Morchella esculenta
- Summer truffle
Tuber aestivum
- False morel
Gyromitra esculenta
Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q1463716 · All fungi · All entries