turban-top

English

Alternative forms

• turban top

Noun

turban-top (plural turban-tops)

1. (obsolete, West Midlands) A kind of fungus with an irregularly wrinkled, somewhat globular pileus, including the genus Helvella and the species Gyromitra esculenta.
   • 1798, Charles Abbot, Flora Bedfordiensis, Comprehending Such Plants as Grow Wild in the County of Bedford, Arranged According to the System of Linnæus, with Occasional Remarks, Bedford: W. Smith, page 320:

     Turban-top. Helvella. Gen. Pl. 1677. Mushroom top-shaped, smooth above and underneath.

   • 1805, John Duncumb, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Hereford. Drawn Up for the Consideration of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement, London: Richard Phillips, pages 170–171:

     The following have been observed on the eastern borders of Herefordshire in the vicinity of Malvern Hills, and are demeed rariores as natives of Great Britain: […]
     Helvella Gelatinosa. ––– ― Turban-top.
     ― Cartilagenea ––– Gristly Turban-top.

   • 1904, Kaiserliches Gesundheitsamt, Hygiene and Sanitation, 9th edition, Berlin: Springer, →DOI, →ISBN, § 69 Fungi and Mushrooms, page 71:

     Among the poisonous fungi, which could be mistaken for the edible are the Agaricus piperatus puff-ball, the toad-stool and the poisonous orange agaricus, belonging to the cap-fungi and the turban top of the sack species, which often cause poisonous results owing to their resemblance to morels.

   • 1967, S. Franke, U. Freimuth, P. H. List, “Über die Giftigkeit der Frühjahrslorchel Gyromitra (Helvella) esculenta Fr. 14. Mitteilung Pilzinhaltsstoffe”, in Archives of Toxicology‎^[1], volume 22, →DOI, pages 293–332:

Derived terms

• turban top shell