Image credit: Beentree, Severine Meißner
Do not confuse the true morel, left, with the deadly false morel, right. False morels, also called brain mushrooms, are filled with a cotton-like material while true morels are hollow. False morels tend to be yellow-brown, red-brown or brown and are poisonous.
May 8, 2017
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