Black truffle
Tuber melanosporum
Edible, but easily confused with poisonous lookalikes.
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At a glance
- Scientific name
- Tuber melanosporum
- Class
- Pezizomycetes
- Order
- Pezizales
- Family
- Tuberaceae
- Under the cap
- Spores inside
- Cap
- No cap
- Stem
- No stem
- Lives by
- Partner of trees
- Season
- Winter
- Habitat
- Broadleaf forest
- Spore print
- Brown, Black
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- Hunters use trained dogs to find it by smell, because it grows hidden underground.
- Its Latin name melanosporum means black-spored, after its dark spores.
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Similar fungi
- Summer truffle
Tuber aestivum
- Orange peel fungus
Aleuria aurantia
- False morel
Gyromitra esculenta
Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q1093314 · All fungi · All entries