White Morel
(Morchella deliciosa)
White Morel
White Morel, sculpture

White Morel

sculpture, acrylic paints

This morel has a round, oval, or conical cap 3/8 to 1-3/8 inches across and 5/8 to 1-3/8 inches high. It's margin is often tucked inward.

The widely spaced, uneven, mostly longitudinal ridges are whitish tan, blackening with age.

The uneven pits, often vertically elongated, are dark brown to beige, blackening with age.

White Morel

White Morel

The scruffy, whitish stalk is 5/8 to 2-3/8 inches long, 1/4 to
1-1/4 inches thick, sometimes enlarged at the base.

White Morel Drawing

White Morel

pen and ink drawing

This morel grow in gardens, orchards, woods, and edges of woods throughout North America in the spring.

Some experts the white morel is really an immature form of the yellow morel, but no one seems to have had enough patience to leave it and see whether it would mature. They always ate it first! True to its scientific specific name, it is delicious!

Basket of Morels