Truffles: Their Underground Story

This is a Truffle growers guide to identifying the structures in the soil involved with the Truffle Fungus. This book includes over a hundred photographs. These photos involve the Truffle’s World before Truffles mature before Truffle Hunters and Chefs become involved. It is the time when the earth is left in peace, undisturbed, when truffles are born and grow. Included in the Contents: Understanding Truffles..15 Size and scale of the roots in these Photo's..18 Mycorrhiza..26 Mycelium and Cistidae..34 Abscission nodes ..62 Stroma..66 Root divisions and Clusters..70 Where is the Truffle attached to the tree?..82 Truffle symbiotic or parasitic?..84 Colours of immature Truffles..88 Eruptions..96 A journal of the colour changes on a visible growing truffle ..98 The name and the colour..132 Truffles and frost events:.134 Other fungi..138 Surface Truffles..144 Physical Damage to Truffles..146 Damaged then Rotted Truffles..150 Southern Hemisphere Climate..156 Case studies of Truffles harvested too soon..158 Research (A number of interesting photographs of tiny growths of that are of other species associated with the truffle )..162 Read more