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False Morel Project Record for 06120305 Collection Date: June 12, 2003 County or City: Douglas Collector's Notes: 50-60 specimens growing on path edges or on the path itself, but not in the woods beyond the path. Forest floor densely covered with nettles, poison ivy, and brambles. Ash trees, fairly mature, 6 and 10 feet away; also a mulberry nearby. Soil temperature 64.7 degrees. Heavy rain the night before. Apothecium 2-4 cm across; irregular; nearly cuplike in some young specimens; typically developing into a saddle-shaped lobe with an acute sinus, but sometimes irregularly lobed; the margin inrolled when young, in maturity touching the stem and other points but not adhering; hymenium smooth; dry; white or dirty white, becoming grayish or pale grayish brown. Excipular surface whitish; pubescent. Stem 2.5-9 cm x 3-10 mm; more or less equal; smooth; hollow; snapping cleanly; with a verpa-like, cottony pith inside; two specimens (in over 50) developing a furrow/groove in the lower stem. Odor sweetish mild; taste not distinctive. Flesh insubstantial; brittle; whitish. Spores 16-21 x 11-13 µ; elliptical; smooth. Asci 8-spored; 168-192 x 12 µ.
Collector's Identification: Helvella latispora |
