Correct blessing is Hamotzi or Mezonos:[1] Some Poskim[2] rule that if one recited Haeitz over Hamotzi bread [or a Mezonos food, made of wheat[3]] then he fulfills his obligation.[4] Many Poskim[5], however, argue and rule that one does not fulfill his obligation. [Practically, the main opinion follows that one is not Yotzei and hence one is to immediately say Baruch Sheim Kevod Malchuso Leolam Vaed and then recite the correct blessing on the food.]
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[1] See Piskeiy Teshuvos 167:21; Encyclopedia Talmudit Erech Chita vol. 14 p. 543
[2] Kesef Mishneh Brachos 4:6 “Possibly even if one said Haeitz on bread he is Yotzei”; Tosafus Yerushalayim, and Amudei Hashulchan, brought in Kaf Hachaim 167:76
[3] See Encyclopedia Talmudit ibid
[4] The reason: This follows the opinion who rules that the tree from which Adam Harishon ate from was Haeitz. [Kesef Mishneh ibid; Kaf Hachaim ibid]
[5] All Poskim ibid who rule one is not Yotzei with Hadama, and certainly this would apply with Haeitz. Furthermore, possibly even those Poskim who ruled that one is Yotzei with Hadama, would agree that one is not Yotzei with Haeitz; See Chayeh Adam in Nishmas Adam 58:3 and Daas Torah who question the statement of the Kesef Mishneh ibid; Meiri Brachos 40a;
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