Tell me about this Mushroom
 

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1344370132.jpg


After killing a Morel with out realizing it anyone have some info on this one?

It's in a semi arid area in my yard with shade.

Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude...

It will make you giggle......or it will kill you.

You need to get better photos of the cap and the underside.

no, that would be these:

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1344371720.jpg

I would predict kidney failure.

The holes (pits) in the surface is a bad sign and it's not a morel.
I'm guessing its a type of False Morel which are poisonous, I'd have to check my mushroom book to be sure.

We have, pick and eat morels every spring here, yum.

This is a morel, black morels look the same but are dark brown and/or almost black edges.

http://www.samcooks.com/graphics/vegetables/morel.jpg

very ominous looking

As I thought it's a False Morel, do not eat.
This is what it will look like in a week or so.

http://www.mushroomthejournal.com/be.../VconicaFS.jpg

The First Morel

It actually looks like a bolete of some sort. I can't tell from the photo. If it is spongy in the "gill" area underneath it could be a bolete. But it has beetle bore holes in it so it is old. Leave it alone if you don't know what it is.

That is what we used to call Gulf Coast Gold.

That is not one you want to eat man.

nope, liver

Heh, Gold Caps. Good times..:D