Your eye for morels will sharpen with experience. Fruits in rich, moist soils, along stream banks and swamp edges-edible, but eat with caution. Do not eat in large quantities or every day for a period of several days. Caps hang free of stalk, found in forests of mixed conifers and hardwoods, under wild cherry trees, and in old apple orchards. Usually fruits just before the apple trees come to full bloom.
Color varies from light cream to yellowish-brown.
Similar in appearance to morchella esculenta. Cap is detached from the stalk about half way down. Fruits 10 to 15 days after the Verpa Bohemica. Color varies from grey in young specimens to almost black in older ones. Hollow cap attached to stalk at lower edge.