Thimble Morel / Smooth Thimble-cap

Verpa conica

Deciduous forests, parks, forest edges, scrub, wooded river slopes. Spring.

Fruiting bodies small. Cap 2—3 cm tall and 1—2 cm wide, bell-shaped, the top attached to the stem, from pale to dark brown, the margins paler, free; the surface longitudinally veined, grooved, wavy, wrinkled. Stem 5-10x1-1.5 cm, very brittle, yellowish, banded, pinkish, hollow. Flesh whitish, brittle. Characteristic features: cap fused to the stem only at the top, brown. Grows singly or in small groups. Edible. Rare.