Common stitch (Gyromitra esculenta)

Systematics:
  • 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

Common stitch (Gyromitra esculenta) photo and description 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:

Common line (Gyromitra esculenta) – carefully poison !!!

Regular line – deadly poisonous mushroom!

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