[poulsbohemian]

I used to feel the same way, until I saw examples of gyromitra that look a lot like morchella and vice versa. It also gets complicated because there are varieties of gyromitra that are edible if properly prepared.

Mushroom hunting is a lot of fun, but I’d rather leave something in the field if I’m not 100% sure if the species.

[vidarh]

Yeah, I'm Norwegian and when looking up morels to see what the Norwegian name would be the reaction I had to seeing it was that it looks like "sandmorkel" - gyromitra esculenta - which is toxic unless boiled, and which were warned to avoid having too many meals of even after boiling because the toxins build up.

More than one family have ended up hospitalized after standing over the pot just to smell it while boiling...