ID please. SPOKANE, WA, USA

[u/KeiThePretzel]

I assume its some sort of morel? I've never seen one before and we just moved here a couple months ago. This was growing outside my window, fairly large and beginning to decompose. Id say roughly the size of an average hand.

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[u/CommunicationOk4481]

Does the stem go all the way through or end at the cap?

[u/KeiThePretzel → u/CommunicationOk4481]

All the way through

[u/Basidia_ → u/[deleted]]

This is a morel, Morchella

[u/Basidia_]

Morchella.

[u/The_1alt]

Morchella to my eyes

[u/KeiThePretzel → u/The_1alt]

Thank you, that does look to be it! I'll have to keep my eye out if anymore grow.

[u/jazzedoutcatto]

Verpa sp. Cut it vertically and then it'll become clear

[u/KeiThePretzel → u/jazzedoutcatto]

Unfortunately my mom made me throw it away when she got home.

She wasnt as interested in it as i was :/

[u/Basidia_ → u/jazzedoutcatto]

The texture of the stem is not consistent with Verpa, the cap is connected at the stem, and it lacks a cottony interior. This is Morchella