Nice surprise, or death?

[LooneyTunes]

Just been out to pick some asparagus for dinner and found a little clump of these.



(each is about as long as my middle finger)

My immediate thought was Morel... but with fungi there is always the nagging doubt that I could be wrong. What to the PH mycologists think? Tasty treat or Mr G Reaper trying to pull a fast one?

[Mobile Chicane]

Google Morchella elata. I think that's it. It's edible.

[calibrax]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZVjKlBCvhg

[LooneyTunes]

Mobile Chicane said:

Google Morchella elata. I think that's it. It's edible.

Excellent. Looks like the fellow (albeit the various websites advocate cooking properly).

Deviled mushrooms for lunch tomorrow I think!

[Big Al.]

Looks like the real macoy to me, the flukes in the false morel are not so pronounce.

Enjoy.....

Do try to post if I was got it wrong.

[Davie_GLA]

Careful of the dragons and trolls in the kitchen after eating

[RizzoTheRat]

The OP doesn't appear to have posted anything on the forums since Tuesday...

[grumbledoak]

I guess he has answered his own question.

[Davie_GLA]

The hallucinations must be phenomenal. Bet he's sat talking his exit strategy over with a group of his most trusted fruit shoots.

[LooneyTunes]

Still alive!

Sadly the morels were accidentally trampled by a small child before I could pick them.

I will need to be quicker off the mark if more appear.

[Mr Gearchange]

Davie_GLA said:

The hallucinations must be phenomenal. Bet he's sat talking his exit strategy over with a group of his most trusted fruit shoots.

Mrs Gearchange once laid on the kitchen floor, head in the fridge, holding a discussion with a group of Smirnoff Ice after some Psilocybe shrooms.