Formerly known as Morchella elata, the Black Morel or Morchella angusticeps (Peck) has a conical or sub-conical cap and exhibits dark vertically arranged ridges and paler pits. The cap barely overhangs the granular stalk to which it is attached. Morchella angusticeps is typically the first of the four or five main eastern morels to appear in the spring. Like all morels, and unlike the brown to reddish brown Gyromitras, which have a ‘stuffed interior,’ Morchella angusticeps is hollow. It is found solitary or grouped under several different species of hardwood and conifer trees, including tulip poplars, pines, oaks, etc.