Always nice to find one’s first morels of the year
These are Morchella importuna (‘black morels’ in the Elata clade of Morchella) and can be found in imported woodchip/bark mulch; the kind often chucked down around new build homes and supermarket carparks etc. Not the most romantic of settings to forage for delicious mushrooms, usually more of a smash and grab affair, but a must-do spring past time (for me at least 😆)
This time I got lucky and found these in a communal area so didn’t get those knock-knock-ginger vibes today, nor did I have to ask anyone present if I can pick their weird mushrooms from their garden and persuade them “they’re not magic, honest”
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