Flesh: whitish or fawn, and appearing as if layered.
Spores: very long, ellipsoid, smooth and 15-16 × 9-10 µm in size; eight contained in an elongate, cylindrical ascus.
Habitat & Distribution: On bare soil in woods, farm-yards, hedgerows, etc.
General Information: There are many different species of Peziza classified on the shape and ornamentation of the spores and colour of the fruit-body—see [pp. 216] and [220]. P. badia is darker, although similar in other ways; it is found on pathsides in woods and has roughened spores.
Morchella esculenta St Amans Common morel
Cap: width 30-40 mm; length 35-60 mm. Stem: width 15-25 mm; length 50-80 mm.
Description:
Fruit-body: consisting of a head with a honeycomb-like arrangement of narrow ridges surrounding angular and often slightly elongated, shallow pits, on a cylindric or swollen stem.
Cap: brownish grey then reddish brown or ochraceous brown.
Stem: cylindrical or slightly enlarged at the base, brittle, hollow, minutely scurfy and/or furrowed.