Rogers Mushrooms - Tuber aestivum Mushroom


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Tuber aestivum. Click a photo to enlarge it. back to list

synonyms: Sommertrüffel, Summer Truffle, Truffe de été, Truffe de la Saint-Jean

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location: Europe

edibility: Choice

fungus colour: Black or blackish

normal size: 5-15cm

cap type: Other

stem type: Lateral, rudimentary or absent

flesh: Mushroom has distinct or odd smell (non mushroomy)

spore colour: White, cream or yellowish

habitat: Grows underground

Tuber aestivum Vitt. Sommertrüffel Truffe de été, Truffe de la Saint-Jean, Summer Truffle. Fruit body 3–14cm across, globose, covered in pyramidal warts, blackish brown. Flesh whitish becoming marbled grey-brown. Taste nutty, smell sweet. Spores ovoid, reticulate, 20–40 x 15–30um. Habitat buried usually near beech on calcareous soil. Season late summer to autumn. Rare. Edible – good. Found In Europe.

Mushroom Recipes

Four Ideas with Truffles

Italian White Truffle

Truffles on a Serviette


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