Search, recognize and collect

This is where you have to look

Stream and river meadows surrounded by forest are ideal Locations for the tasty morels. To the left and right of the water, mainly under alders and ash trees, the table morel grows well hidden in the green undergrowth. The coveted mushroom can often be found as early as April. However, the closely related pointed morel is far more common and much easier to find. It often grows in the bark mulch of front gardens as well as in coniferous forests, on forest meadows and on the edges of forests. The Spitz morel is often close by bracken to be found.

Which types of morel are edible

The differences between the edible morel and the May morel (also known as the yellow edible morel) are not very great. The table morel is smaller and not - like the May morel - evenly yellowish in color, but rather dark brown when young, later gray-brown and often with rust-colored spots on the ribs. Also edible is the gray to black-brown colored pointed morel, which differs from the other species by its conical hat shape and the vertically arranged longitudinal ribs.

Caution, poisonous! How to tell the difference between morels and lorels

If you want to collect morels, you have to know what distinguishes it from the sometimes very poisonous lorels. To do this, you simply have to cut through the fruiting body lengthways: if it is completely hollow on the inside and looks like a honeycomb on the outside, it is a morel. If, on the other hand, it is chambered on the inside and has a rather shriveled appearance on the outside, it is a poisonous Lorchel species. The autumn Lorchel is also almost entirely white, while the deadly poisonous Spring Lorchel is reddish-brown in color.