1. A morel whose pitted fertile body is attached to the stalk with little free skirt around it; the fertile body is grey when young and black in old age
   "Black morels are prized by mushroom hunters";
   - Morchella conica, conic morel, Morchella angusticeps, narrowhead morel

Derived forms: black morels

Type of: morel

Part of: family Morchellaceae, Morchellaceae

Encyclopedia: Black morel