page_title: Mushroom hunting
section_title: Morchellaceae
hierarchical_section_title: Mushroom hunting / Commonly gathered mushrooms / Morchellaceae
caption_attribution_description: Mushroom Magic Meal
context_page_description: Mushroom hunting, mushrooming, mushroom picking, mushroom foraging, shrooming, and similar terms describe the activity of gathering mushrooms in the wild, typically for food. This practice is popular throughout most of Europe, Australia, Japan, Korea, parts of the Middle East, and the Indian subcontinent, as well as the temperate regions of Canada and the United States.
context_section_description: The morel, Morchella esculenta is highly prized in Western Europe, India and North America. It is significantly less prized in Slavic countries where, like the Gyromitra esculenta, it is considered marginally edible with mediocre palatability. Boiling the mushroom and discarding the water is often recommended.
  Morchella esculenta (morel, yellow morel)
caption: A basket of morels
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