enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Tuber melanosporum - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuber_melanosporum

    Boars and the larvae of the truffle fly (Suillia tuberiperda), which eat the fruiting bodies, aid in the distribution of the species by excreting the indigestible spores. Their excrement likely also serves to fertilize the spores. Black truffles are sometimes found together with winter truffles, which aid the growth of black truffles in wet ...

  3. Truffle - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truffle

    The black truffle or black Périgord truffle (Tuber melanosporum), the second-most commercially valuable species, is named after the Périgord region in France. [5] Black truffles associate with oaks, hazelnut, cherry, and other deciduous trees and are harvested in late autumn and winter. [5] [6] The genome sequence of the black truffle was ...

  4. Tuber macrosporum - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuber_macrosporum

    Tuber macrosporum, commonly known as the smooth black truffle, [1] is a species of edible truffle in the family Tuberaceae. Found in Europe, and common in central Italy, the truffle was described as new to science by Italian mycologist Carlo Vittadini in 1831. [ 2 ]

  5. Suillia tuberiperda - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suillia_tuberiperda

    Suillia tuberiperda, the truffle fly, is a European species of Heleomyzidae. [1]Its larvae develop in truffles, a behavior exploited in the search for truffles.The eggs are deposited in the soil above the fruiting bodies, and the emerging larvae dig for the truffles.

  6. Tuber indicum - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuber_indicum

    Tuber indicum, commonly known as the Chinese black truffle or the Asian black truffle, [1] is an edible fungus known for its hypogean fruiting bodies, characteristic of the Tuber genus. It is found natively in Himalayan India and parts of China, [ 1 ] but has also been found invasively in the United States [ 2 ] and Italy. [ 3 ]

  7. Black fly - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_fly

    A black fly or blackfly [1] (sometimes called a buffalo gnat, turkey gnat, or white socks) is any member of the family Simuliidae of the Culicomorpha infraorder. It is related to the Ceratopogonidae, Chironomidae, and Thaumaleidae. Over 2,200 species of black flies have been formally named, of which 15 are extinct. [2]

  8. Leucangium carthusianum - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucangium_carthusianum

    Leucangium carthusianum is a species of ascomycete fungus.It is commonly known as the Oregon black truffle. [1] It is found in the Pacific Northwest region of North America, where it grows in an ectomycorrhizal association with Douglas-fir.

  9. Tuber borchii - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuber_borchii

    It is highly adaptable to different environments: although it prefers calcareous sandy soils (typical of coastal areas) it also bears fruit in black truffle (Tuber melanosporum) habitat at higher altitudes. It grows well in soils with a pH of 7–8, as well as in subalkalines with a pH of 6–7, although occasionally it also grows in soils with ...