What is "black morel"

n. a morel whose pitted fertile body is attached to the stalk with little free skirt around it; the fertile body is gray when young and black in old age [syn: Morchella conica, conic morel, Morchella angusticeps, narrowhead morel]

Several species of fungi share the name black morel:

• Morchella angusticeps (L.) Pers. (1801)
• Morchella conica Pers.
• Morchella elata Fr. (1822)
• Morchella tomentosa M.Kuo (2008), the black foot morel