Tuber brumale    Vittad. 



New classification: Ascomycota/Pezizomycotina/Pezizomycetes/Pezizomycetidae/Pezizales/Tuberaceae  
Former classification: Ascomycota/Hymenoascomycetes/Pezizomycetideae/Tuberales/Tuberaceae  

edibility : edible, good

potential confusions with  Tuber brumale toxicity of Tuber brumale genus Tuber  

The fruiting body is more or less spherical, irregular, dark reddish brown to black, completely covered with low, easily detached, polygonal warts with a blunt top, without stem.

The flesh is firm, white in the youth, then grey and finally black, marbled with thick and distant branching whitish veins, not surrounded by red and not reddening when cut; its taste is very pleasant; the odour is strong, musky, sometimes of ether.

The fertile surface is internal.

It grows underground, at a depth of about 4in (10 cm), in deciduous woods, on a rather calcareous soil, preferably with oak, evergreen oak, also with hazel.
Dimensions: width of fruiting body approximately 5 cm (between 2 and 8 cm)

Distinctive features : Dark brown to black, irregularly hemispherical fruiting body, covered with polygonal warts which are easily detached; fragrant flesh, white then grey-brown and marbled with thick and distant branching white veins; found underground on calcareous soils, in deciduous woods, preferably with oak or hazel.

Tuber brumale is still unreported so far in the forest of Rambouillet, and is rare, more generally speaking .



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