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A yellow morel of the south-eastern United States that appears to grow only under tulip trees, often in sandy river bottoms and coastal plains. It has an egg-shaped cap with mainly vertical ridges. Described as M. virginiana in 2012, it is now treated as a junior synonym of M. sceptriformis Clowez from the same year.
Edible only when thoroughly cooked; morels contain heat-labile toxins and raw or undercooked morels can cause poisoning. Separate from false morels (Gyromitra), whose caps are brain-like or wrinkled and chambered or cottony inside, and from Verpa, whose cap hangs free from the top of a cotton-stuffed stem. A true morel is hollow from cap to stem base when sliced lengthwise.
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