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  2. What Exactly Is a Truffle and Why Does It Cost So Much? - AOL

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    Truffles are a type of edible fungi that grow underground near the roots of certain oak trees. They have a unique flavor that's savory and earthy. What Exactly Is a Truffle and Why Does It Cost So ...

  3. Tuber oregonense - Wikipedia

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    Tuber oregonense, commonly known as the Oregon white truffle, is a species of edible truffle in the genus Tuber.Described as new to science in 2010, the North American species is found on the western coast of the United States, from northern California to southern British Columbia west of the Cascade Range.

  4. Tuber melanosporum - Wikipedia

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    Black truffles are now also cultivated in Australia, New Zealand, Chile, [22] North America, Argentina, South Africa, [15] [23] and Wales. [24] Cultivation involves the planting of, for example, hazel trees whose roots are inoculated with truffle mycelium. The first fruiting bodies can be harvested about 4–10 years after planting the trees. [25]

  5. Geopora cooperi - Wikipedia

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    Geopora cooperi, commonly known as the pine truffle or the fuzzy truffle, is a species of fungus in the family Pyronemataceae. It has a fuzzy brown outer surface and an inner surface of whitish, convoluted folds of tissue. Widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere, the species has been recorded from Asia, Europe, and North America.

  6. Kalapuya brunnea - Wikipedia

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    The truffle is edible, and has been harvested for culinary purposes, although with less frequency than other Pacific Northwest truffles. [2] Both the flavor and odor of the edible fruit body resemble mature Camembert cheese. [1] One source described the taste as follows: "Served in melted butter on sliced baguette, they reminded of buttered ...

  7. Truffle - Wikipedia

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    Mauléon saw an "obvious symbiosis" between the oak tree, the rocky soil, and the truffle and attempted to reproduce such an environment by taking acorns from trees known to have produced truffles and sowing them in chalky soil. [59] [60] His experiment was successful, with truffles found in the soil around the newly grown oak trees years later.

  8. Tuber macrosporum - Wikipedia

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    The truffles are roughly spherical to irregular in shape, and typically measure 0.5 to 2 centimetres (1 ⁄ 4 to 3 ⁄ 4 inch) in diameter (rarely are they greater than 5 cm or 2 in). The surface color ranges from reddish brown to rust to blackish. Warts on the fruit body surface are low, so that the truffle appears fairly smooth.

  9. Tuber borchii - Wikipedia

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    Whitish truffles often grow in oak groves, and less frequently under conifers. Like most truffles, it bears fruit underground, although not very deep (occasionally, mature specimens reach the surface). It bears fruit from winter to early summer (from December to June), in coastal or low-lying areas (between 200 and 1,000 metres above sea level ...