Can you eat it? Of course, just open your mouth and start chewing. Works for lots of stuff, paper, wood, dirt, leaves…

Check out the BAMS list, JH, for an extensive analysis on this peculiar and fascinating fungus, from Oron’s first shared discovery to our stumbling pathways to ID and issues of edibility. I am not certain that any of the “edibilty” reports were firsthand, and we all know how unreliable edibility information from fieldguides can be! Take Verpa bohemica, for example…

Link to thread here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/...

superficially like a deformed morel, multi-chambered like a sparrasis, how bizarre that it turns out to be an unusual morph of a Peziza! Dimitar provided an excellant link on the BAMS list to a paper on this mushroom and its possible developmental origins:

http://rms1.agsearch.agropedia.affrc.go.jp/...