Spring mushrooms to be found in some places
Photo: Arne Ader
Translation: Liis
True or common morel.
| True morel, common morel |
Ümarmürkel
|
Morchella esculenta | |||
| Black morel | Morchella conica | ||||
| Wrinkled thimble cap, false morel |
Kurrel
|
Ptychoverpa bohemica |
In Estonian the name of the morels looks somewhat scary: mürkel, uncomfortably close to mürk, poison.
But they are really quite delicious. They can go straight into your frying pan without parboiling, and provide a nice taste of the year’s first mushrooms. Their caps are very decoratively honeycomb-patterned. It is worthwhile taking a walk through your mushroom haunts, particularly checking the drier, higher areas. The mushrooms above should still be there in woodlands in northern and western Estonia: in wooded meadows, fresh forests, juniper coppices ..., also in gardens, parks and cemeteries.
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