Summer truffle
Tuber aestivum
Edible, but easily confused with poisonous lookalikes.
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At a glance
- Scientific name
- Tuber aestivum
- Class
- Pezizomycetes
- Order
- Pezizales
- Family
- Tuberaceae
- Under the cap
- Spores inside
- Cap
- No cap
- Stem
- No stem
- Lives by
- Partner of trees
- Season
- Summer, Autumn
- Habitat
- Broadleaf forest
- Spore print
- Brown
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Hard
Did you know?
- Squirrels, deer and wild boar dig truffles up and spread the spores in their droppings.
- The summer truffle and the Burgundy truffle were once thought to be two species, but they turned out to be one.
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Similar fungi
- Black truffle
Tuber melanosporum
- Common morel
Morchella esculenta
- Orange peel fungus
Aleuria aurantia
Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q74692 · All fungi · All entries