Common stitch (Gyromitra esculenta)
- Department: Ascomycota (Ascomycetes)
- Subdivision: Pezizomycotina (Pezizomycotins)
- Class: Pezizomycetes (Pezizomycetes)
- Subclass: Pezizomycetidae (Pezizomycetes)
- Order: Pezizales (Pezizales)
- Family: Discinaceae (Discinaceae)
- Genus: Gyromitra (Strochok)
- Type: Gyromitra esculenta (Common stitch)
- Helvella partner
- Helvella esculenta
- Physomitra esculenta
Line ordinary (lat. Gyromitra esculenta) – a species of marsupial fungi of the genus Line (Gyromitra) of the family Discinaceae (Discinaceae) of the order Pezizales; type species of the genus.
From the rhizine family. It occurs quite rarely, on sandy non-turfed soil, on the edges of forests, on clearings, on roadsides, paths, and edges of ditches. Fruiting from March to May.
Hat ∅ 2-13 cm, first, then, irregularly rounded, brain-folded, hollow.
Leg 3-9 cm high, ∅ 2-4 cm, whitish, grayish, yellowish or reddish, cylindrical, furrowed or folded, often flattened, hollow, dry.
The pulp is very brittle. The taste and smell are pleasant.
Sometimes an ordinary line is confused with a morel. These mushrooms have a different shape of the cap. The line is irregularly rounded, the morel is ovoid.
Video about the mushroom Line ordinary:
Regular line – deadly poisonous mushroom!