Gyromitra brain mushroom turban fungus beefsteak mushroom

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High - poly model of Gyromitra for usage in VFX.
This mushroom has different names such as brain mushroom, turban fungus, elephant ears, and  beefsteak mushroom / morel.
German term lorchel is a result of the older lorche, itself from the 18th century Low German Lorken, aligning with the similar-sounding (and similar-looking) morchel.
Other names include: Frühjahrs-Giftlorchel, Frühjahrslorchel, Frühlorchel, Giftlorchel, hongo bonete,  falsa colmenilla, Gyromitra esculenta, fausse morille,  gyromitre fausse morille, bobausis. Its top has a shapless, or rather a shape that resembbes brain or greek nut. 
It can be of 5-20cm in size.
This particular one was around 8-10cm in size.It has some poison, but if you boil it 3 times its  ok to eat it.
Has slightly crunchy texture at least if you compare it to other mushrooms. Some also dry it and use its powder. It grous in Europ and north america. Likes quite sandy soil. Its edable (with specific preparations) in some countries and considered poisonous in other contries.
 The fungus was first named in 1800, by mycologist Christian Hendrik Persoon, as Helvella esculenta, and gained its current accepted binomial name when the Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries placed it in the genus Gyromitra in 1849. The genus name is derived from the Greek terms gyros round and mitra headband Its specific epithet is derived from the Latin esculentus, edible.
The model was obtaines using photogrammetry so espetialy good textures where captured. Delighting was performed to get cleaner color texture. Includes normal maps, height map, Ambient oclussion map, and extra bump map.
Metalness and rufness are mabe out of bump map, so one can just use blaack / whte color if need be.
Original textures come at 8k png, and 4k jpg are provided. The topology of model is all triangles derived from decimation master in Zbrush. (low poly / quad verssions are coming latter as seperate models)