A large, yellow morel mushroom rears it wrinkled head above the leaf litter at the base of the large oak tree in sounthern Illinois... I found a few dozen of these beauties in the woods on my family's farm last week.
"the sudden appearance of mushroom after a summer rain is one of the more impressive spectacles of the plant world".
Beautiful photo and a great specimen of the "Morchella esculenta" edible and excellent @ballphotografi 😊