Gyromitra infula    (Schaeff.:Fr.) 

common name(s) : Pouched False Morel 

New classification: Ascomycota/Pezizomycotina/Pezizomycetes/Pezizomycetidae/Pezizales/Discinaceae  
Former classification: Ascomycota/Hymenoascomycetes/Pezizomycetideae/Pezizales/Pezizineae/Helvellaceae  

synonyms: Helvella infula 

edibility : deadly poisonous

potential confusions with  Gyromitra infula toxicity of Gyromitra infula genus Gyromitra  

The cap is mitre- or saddle-shaped, with a pink-brown, cinnamon-brown, chestnut-brown internal surface, the external being pink-brown, cinnamon-brown, chestnut-brown, with a well differentiated stem, whitish grey to pink, hairy.

The fertile surface is smooth.

It grows on wood or on the ground, in coniferous (sometimes deciduous) woods, amongst wood dumps or stumps, on spruce, beech, pine.

The fruiting period takes place from July to December.
Dimensions: width of cap approximately 7 cm (between 3 and 10 cm)
  total height approximately 6 cm (between 1 and 10 cm)
  width of stem approximately 10 mm (between 0 and 20 mm)


Gyromitra infula is rare and confined in the forest of Rambouillet, and is quite rare, more generally speaking .
here should be the distribution map of Gyromitra infula in the forest of Rambouillet
Above : distribution map of Gyromitra infula in the forest of Rambouillet



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