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Truffles

LC control no.sh 85138160
LC classificationQK623.T8 Mycology
SB353.5.T78 Culture
Topical headingTruffles
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Variant(s)Black truffles, Périgord
Périgord black truffles
Périgord truffles
Tuber (Fungi)
Tuber melanosporum
Winter truffles
See alsoEdible fungi
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Tuberaceae
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Found inAinsworth/Bisby dict. fungi (truffle, an ascoma, generally subterranean, of Tuber or other Pezizales or Elaphomycetales, or basidioma of Hymenogastrales; about 180 truffle-forming spp. are known ... Périgord (French) -, T. melanosporum)
Hall, I.R. The black truffle, c1994: p. 3 (Périgord black truffle (Tuber melanosporum Vitt.))
Web. 3 (truffle 1a: the edible subterranean fruiting body of various European fungi of the genus Tuber ...)
International Conference on Truffles (1992 : L'Aquila, Italy). Tuber, 1993.
Pegler, D.N. British truffles : a revision of British hypogeous fungi, 1993.