A verpa, a half free morel and a false morel. Over here the field guides don't recommend eating verpas due to some poison in it that is deadly to some people (though in Italy they eat them like normal mushrooms). The second ones are edible but when you cook them they kind of lose their nice texture. I still like the harvest the half free ones to fill up the basket. The last one has hydrazine in it which is toxic so most people don't harvest them. There is a tricky way of boiling them to remove the hydrazine to make them edible. I suspect the hydrazine is in trace amounts so if you eat lots of them maybe you'd be in trouble but one or two consumed every now and then shouldn't hurt especially if parboiled first.
Over here the field guides don't recommend eating verpas due to some poison in it
The last one has hydrazine in it which is toxic so most people don't harvest them.
Yeah, that is the case. I've read also articles that say - hydrazine depends on the usual level of temperatures in the local area. Locations with hotter temperatures make the mushroom produce this toxin, and N hundreds of kilometres to the north and minus 1-2 C degrees - researches state there is no trace of poison in these mushrooms, i.e. it is safe to eat.
But guides do dont conduct urgent researches - the info is being copypasted from and old sources on and on and on and on... )
So I join you in picking these mushrooms..... especially since they're so meaty!
!BEER and !PIZZA
I always get excited seeing the Gyromitas from a distance only to realize it is the false morel. Though over in the state next to mine they eat them and I know they sell them canned over in Europe lol. So they can't be that bad. This guy has a pretty good debate on cooking them or not. https://foragerchef.com/on-cooking-false-morels-gyromitra/