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Hillbilly:
The stem  and all should be hollow-the morel is one unit with no junction between the stem and cap when you cut it open (except for the half-free morel.) The false morel has a semi-solid stem and the cap is noticeably seperate from the stem. Top pic is a true morel, bottom is a false morel.

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david w.:
Great pictures Hillbilly.  Thanks :)

FlintWalker:
Thanks for posting those pics Steve.  That's exactly what I was talking about.   

stickbender:

     Aha! :)  That clears things up now. 8)  Now I feel more comfortable about picking a Morel.  If I had seen the false Morel, I might have taken the semi hollow stem as being hollow, and not Knowing about the separate head attachment.  Thanks for the Pictures, it sure makes it a lot clearer...... ;)  Does the Morel taste anything like the mushrooms you get in the store?

                                                                                   Wayne

Hillbilly:
Kind of, but much better. The store mushrooms aren't sold because they're the best tasting, but because they're the easiest to grow commercially. A lot of mushrooms are mycorrhizal with different tree species and can't be tamed and grown in commercial quantities.

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