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  • These are Australian morels Morchella elata, sometimes known as black morels.

    Archive 2009-10-01 2009

  • These are Australian morels Morchella elata, sometimes known as black morels.

    At My Table 2009

  • Morchella esculenta, for example, is known as a morel in English, but has various names in different parts of Mexico, including elotitos (little corn cobs) menudo (tripe) and viejitos (little old men.)

    Stalking The Wild Mushroom: An Ancient Mexican Culinary Tradition 2006

  • Morchella esculenta, for example, is known as a morel in English, but has various names in different parts of Mexico, including elotitos (little corn cobs) menudo (tripe) and viejitos (little old men.)

    Stalking The Wild Mushroom: An Ancient Mexican Culinary Tradition 2006

  • After morels Morchella spp., saffron milk caps are the most desirable mushrooms that grow in Australia.

    At My Table 2007

  • After morels Morchella spp., saffron milk caps are the most desirable mushrooms that grow in Australia.

    Archive 2007-04-01 2007

  • It is also a member of the Ascomycota division of fungi, which contains several fungi that are very important to humans, chiefly the yeasts that make bread making, brewing and blue cheese possible and the production of certain antibiotics (penicillin for instance), as well as being related to morel mushrooms (Morchella spp.)

    Archive 2007-07-01 2007

  • It is also a member of the Ascomycota division of fungi, which contains several fungi that are very important to humans, chiefly the yeasts that make bread making, brewing and blue cheese possible and the production of certain antibiotics (penicillin for instance), as well as being related to morel mushrooms (Morchella spp.)

    At My Table 2007

  • Unlike overseas, there seems to be only one type of morel that grows here, Morchella elata, the black one.

    At My Table 2006

  • In Europe, Asia and North America it's possible to find as well, Morchella esculenta and Morchella vulgaris.

    At My Table 2006

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