{"id":27153,"date":"2016-02-10T07:27:55","date_gmt":"2016-02-10T06:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zemaljskimuzej.ba\/?item=common-morel-morchella-esculenta-pers"},"modified":"2025-07-10T23:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T21:34:17","slug":"common-morel-morchella-esculenta-pers","status":"publish","type":"item","link":"https:\/\/zemaljskimuzej.ba\/en\/item\/common-morel-morchella-esculenta-pers\/","title":{"rendered":"Common morel \u2014 Morchella esculenta Pers."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The common morel grows from early spring to early summer, most commonly next to aspen trees (<em>Populus tremula<\/em>). It is also often found among the charred remains of buildings. Its cap is hollow and conical with indentations, while the stalk, also hollow, is white.<\/p>\n<p>Like all\u00a0mushrooms from the Morchellaceae family, it is slightly poisonous when raw. The toxicity disappears after smoking or some other type of thermal processing.<\/p>\n<p>This morel is\u00a0a delicacy of the first order. Each year, large quantities of morels are harvested and exported. Unfortunately, the common morel is very rarely seen for sale in our markets or shopping centres.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":27154,"template":"","section":[],"class_list":["post-27153","item","type-item","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Common morel \u2014 Morchella esculenta Pers. - Zemaljski muzej BiH<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/zemaljskimuzej.ba\/en\/item\/common-morel-morchella-esculenta-pers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Common morel \u2014 Morchella esculenta Pers. - Zemaljski muzej BiH\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The common morel grows from early spring to early summer, most commonly next to aspen trees (Populus tremula). 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