Entry Detail

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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