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false morel


Entry Type:  
Species
Scientific Name:  
Common Name:  
false morel
Myaamia Name:  
miinoohsakayi
Harvest Seasons:  
Spring
Habitats:  
Beech-Maple Forest, Oak Forest including Oak-Hickory, Beech-Oak-Maple Mixed Mesophytic

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Myaamia Archival Sources  
Reference Source Reference Type Archival Data Comments
Dunn, J.P. 1919 Use - Food 

 ". . .the Miamis eat the morels and the two large gyromitras--esculenta and brunnea. They do not eat puff-balls, believing that they cause dropsy--in fact the name given to them, pasatowakanĭ, means "thing that causes dropsy".  The edible sponge mushrooms, which they used, as mentioned, are called minosákai, which is the name given to tripe.

Dunn says minosákai is "morels and other sponge mushrooms"; Gatschet and Illinois sources indicate it is also the word for the paunch or upper stomach of a ruminant

Money, N. P. 2002 Use - Food 

False morels are difficult to mistake for true morels. They produce a toxin gyromitrin, which volatizes upon cooking, although caution should be employed in eating this fungus.

Botanical Sources  
Reference Source Reference Type Data Comments
McKnight, K. B., Rohrer, J., Ward, K. M., and McKnight, K. H. 2021 Habitat 

Usually found on soil and decaying wood, bark or logs in forested areas in eastern and western Myaamia lands.

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