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29 sectionsContents
- Taxonomy
- Species
- Black
- Summer or burgundy
- White
- Whitish
- Other ''Tuber''
- Beyond ''Tuber'' {{anchor|Similar organisms}}
- Phylogeny
- Etymology
- Ecology
- Nutrient exchange
- Nutrient cycling
- Importance in arid-land ecosystems
- Volatile constituents
- Extraction
- Cultivation
- New Zealand and Australia
- United States
- Uses
- Oil
- Vodka
- Cultural history
- Antiquity
- Middle Ages
- Renaissance and modernity
- See also
- References
- Additional resources
thumb|Tuber melanosporum|Black truffle (Tuber melanosporum)
A truffle is the fruiting body of a subterranean ascomycete fungus, one of the species of the genus Tuber. More than one hundred other genera of fungi are classified as truffles including Geopora, Peziza, Choiromyces, and Leucangium. These genera belong to the class Pezizomycetes and the Pezizales order. Several truffle-like basidiomycetes are excluded from Pezizales, including Rhizopogon and Glomus.