Many black truffle types can be proliferated by artificial means on spore-impregnated roots in tree plantations. These days they are grown not only in France but also in Italy, the United States, ...

EUGENE, Ore. -- Snug among the roots of Douglas fir trees, there is a pungent fungus among us, little-known, highly prized and one of the world's gastronomic trophies. It is the Oregon truffle, and ...

Truffles are underground mushrooms—stonelike, spore-bearing fruit of fungi that live on tree roots. The insects and small animals which distribute truffle spores are attracted by the powerful, ...

Every morning, for three months of the year, Lola wakes up at 8 and goes hunting. She races past oak trees, running at full speed through a 50-hectare field set in the southern end of the province of ...

CORVALLIS — On a crisp February morning, about 60 people plodded through an orchard that grower Kathleen Sedehi had established for cultivating truffles, edible subterranean fungi widely prized as a ...

Think science is dull and gray? Take a look at what can be seen under the microscope in the photographs of the 50th annual Nikon Small World contest, and you’ll get a sense of how amazing everything ...

Truffles have spread around the world, including to countries in South America. Trufas Del Nuevo Mundo S.A. 2021 Every morning for three months of the year, Lola wakes at 8 and goes hunting. She races ...

In kitchens around the world, truffles represent culinary excellence and prestige, but in the forest they’re just another flora fighting to exist, using somewhat…unusual methods. In the lush woodland ...

On Thursday, a culinary treasure made its mark on Howell Mountain as black Périgord truffles, one of the world’s most expensive foods, were successfully harvested. Typically associated with countries ...

The locals of Hama village know what to do with a fat, smelly truffle. For centuries, if the village pigs in this remote corner of China’s Yunnan province were acting a little less amorous than normal ...