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Truffles

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Variants

Black truffles, Périgord
Périgord black truffles
Périgord truffles
Tuber (Fungi)
Tuber melanosporum
Winter truffles

Broader Terms

Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

truffles

Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

Truffe du Périgord
Trüffel
Truffes
Trufficulture
truffle Label from public data source Wikidata
Truffles
tryffelit
Tuber
Tuber melanosporum

Sources

found: Ainsworth/Bisby dict. fungi(truffle, an ascoma, generally subterranean, of Tuber or other Pezizales or Elaphomycetales, or basidioma of Hymenogastrales; about 180 truffle-forming spp. are known ... Périgord (French) -, T. melanosporum)

found: Hall, I.R. The black truffle, c1994:p. 3 (Périgord black truffle (Tuber melanosporum Vitt.))

found: Web. 3(truffle 1a: the edible subterranean fruiting body of various European fungi of the genus Tuber ...)

found: International Conference on Truffles (1992 : L'Aquila, Italy). Tuber, 1993.

found: Pegler, D.N. British truffles : a revision of British hypogeous fungi, 1993.

LC Classification

QK623.T8
SB353.5.T78

Change Notes

1986-02-11: new

2011-01-18: revised

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