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Grzybiarz is a mobile app for mushroom foragers. Its on-device AI helps you spot fruiting bodies in the leaf litter and suggests a species from a photo, and the app keeps a private map of your finds. Everything runs on your phone and works fully offline in the forest without signal.

Morchella elataMorchella elata

conditionally edible

Morchella elataMorchella elata

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Habitat

under pines

under spruce

mixed forests

Season

from April to May

Morchellaceae

3–12 cm

Season

Out of seasonOut of season. It usually grows from early April to late May.

Today · 22–28 Octout of season

how often reportedpeak

Season

Apr–May

Peak

Apr–May

Reports

101Poland and neighbours

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False Morel grows at the same time

Both species grow together for about 7 wk a year. Most strongly from mid-April to early May.

Curve from 101 observations (GBIF: Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Germany), smoothed week by week. It shows when foragers most often report the species, not how much of it grows.

Key features

Cap slender, sharply conical, gray-brown to blackish, with distinct dark vertical ribs and paler rectangular pits. Stem cream white, folded, hollow; the whole fruit body is uniformly hollow inside (a difference from the False Morel, which has chambers).

Similar (be careful)Confusions documented in our database

False MorelGyromitra esculenta

deadly

Morchella elata has a conical cap with regular vertical ribs and pits; the False Morel has irregular brain-like folds. The morel is hollow inside, the False Morel filled.

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