Truffle, the Glossary
A truffle is the fruiting body of a subterranean ascomycete fungus, one of the species of the genus Tuber.[1]
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210 relations: Abruzzo, Alba, Piedmont, Alcohol (chemistry), Aldehyde, Alkali, Amino acid, Amorites, Ancient Roman cuisine, Ancient Rome, Androstenol, Anisogramma anomala, Appalachian Mountains, Apt, Vaucluse, Arbuscular mycorrhiza, Arthropod, Ascomycota, Ascus, Asti, Bartolomeo Platina, Basidiomycota, Basidiospore, Beech, Biogeography, Birch, Boletales, Bombyx mori, Brine, Business Insider, Calcareous, Carbohydrate, Carpentras, Carthage, Cephalanthera damasonium, Cheese, Chemical & Engineering News, Chemical ecology, Chipmunk, Chitin, Chloride, Chocolate truffle, Choiromyces, Cicero, Città di Castello, Clade, Clay mineral, Climate change, Cocktail, Confectionery, Conidium, Convergent evolution, ... Expand index (160 more) »
- Fungi in cultivation
- Fungus common names
- Mushroom types
Abruzzo
Abruzzo (Abbrùzze, Abbrìzze or Abbrèzze; Abbrùzzu), historically known as Abruzzi, is a region of Southern Italy with an area of 10,763 square km (4,156 sq mi) and a population of 1.3 million.
Alba, Piedmont
Alba (Arba; Alba Pompeia) is a town and comune of Piedmont, Italy, in the Province of Cuneo.
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Alcohol (chemistry)
In chemistry, an alcohol is a type of organic compound that carries at least one hydroxyl functional group bound to carbon.
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Aldehyde
In organic chemistry, an aldehyde is an organic compound containing a functional group with the structure.
Alkali
In chemistry, an alkali (from lit) is a basic, ionic salt of an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal.
Amino acid
Amino acids are organic compounds that contain both amino and carboxylic acid functional groups.
Amorites
The Amorites (author-link, Pl. XXVIII e+i|MAR.TU; Amurrūm or Tidnum Tidnum; ʾĔmōrī; Ἀμορραῖοι) were an ancient Northwest Semitic-speaking Bronze Age people from the Levant.
Ancient Roman cuisine
The cuisine of ancient Rome changed greatly over the duration of the civilization's existence.
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Ancient Rome
In modern historiography, ancient Rome is the Roman civilisation from the founding of the Italian city of Rome in the 8th century BC to the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century AD.
Androstenol
Androstenol, also known as 5α-androst-16-en-3α-ol (shortened to 3α,5α-androstenol or 3α-androstenol), is a 16-androstene class steroidal pheromone and neurosteroid in humans and other mammals, notably pigs.
Anisogramma anomala
Anisogramma anomala is a plant pathogen that causes a disease known as Eastern filbert blight on Corylus spp. (hazlenut).
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Appalachian Mountains
The Appalachian Mountains, often called the Appalachians, are a mountain range in eastern to northeastern North America.
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Apt, Vaucluse
Apt (Provençal Occitan: At / Ate in both classical and Mistralian norms) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.
Arbuscular mycorrhiza
An arbuscular mycorrhiza (AM) (plural mycorrhizae) is a type of mycorrhiza in which the symbiont fungus (AM fungi, or AMF) penetrates the cortical cells of the roots of a vascular plant forming arbuscules.
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Arthropod
Arthropods are invertebrates in the phylum Arthropoda.
Ascomycota
Ascomycota is a phylum of the kingdom Fungi that, together with the Basidiomycota, forms the subkingdom Dikarya.
Ascus
An ascus (asci) is the sexual spore-bearing cell produced in ascomycete fungi.
Asti
Asti (Ast) is a comune (municipality) of 74,348 inhabitants (1–1–2021) located in the Italian region of Piedmont, about east of Turin, in the plain of the Tanaro River.
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Bartolomeo Platina
Bartolomeo Sacchi (1421 – 21 September 1481), known as il Platina after his birthplace of Piadena, was an Italian Renaissance humanist writer and gastronomist, author of what is considered the first printed cookbook.
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Basidiomycota
Basidiomycota is one of two large divisions that, together with the Ascomycota, constitute the subkingdom Dikarya (often referred to as the "higher fungi") within the kingdom Fungi.
Basidiospore
A basidiospore is a reproductive spore produced by basidiomycete fungi, a grouping that includes mushrooms, shelf fungi, rusts, and smuts.
Beech
Beech (Fagus) is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Eurasia and North America.
Biogeography
Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time.
Birch
A birch is a thin-leaved deciduous hardwood tree of the genus Betula, in the family Betulaceae, which also includes alders, hazels, and hornbeams.
Boletales
The Boletales are an order of Agaricomycetes containing over 1300 species with a diverse array of fruiting body types. Truffle and Boletales are mushroom types.
Bombyx mori
Bombyx mori, commonly known as the domestic silk moth, is a moth species belonging to the family Bombycidae.
Brine
Brine (or briny water) is water with a high-concentration solution of salt (typically sodium chloride or calcium chloride).
Business Insider
Business Insider (stylized in all caps, shortened to BI, known from 2021 to 2023 as Insider) is a New York City–based multinational financial and business news website founded in 2007.
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Calcareous
Calcareous is an adjective meaning "mostly or partly composed of calcium carbonate", in other words, containing lime or being chalky.
Carbohydrate
A carbohydrate is a biomolecule consisting of carbon (C), hydrogen (H) and oxygen (O) atoms, usually with a hydrogen–oxygen atom ratio of 2:1 (as in water) and thus with the empirical formula (where m may or may not be different from n), which does not mean the H has covalent bonds with O (for example with, H has a covalent bond with C but not with O).
Carpentras
Carpentras (formerly; Provençal Occitan: Carpentràs in classical norm or Carpentras in Mistralian norm; Carpentoracte) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France.
Carthage
Carthage was an ancient city in Northern Africa, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia.
Cephalanthera damasonium
Cephalanthera damasonium, the white helleborine, is a species of orchid.
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Cheese
Cheese is a dairy product produced in a range of flavors, textures, and forms by coagulation of the milk protein casein.
Chemical & Engineering News
Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN) is a weekly news magazine published by the American Chemical Society (ACS), providing professional and technical news and analysis in the fields of chemistry and chemical engineering.
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Chemical ecology
Chemical ecology is the study of chemically mediated interactions between living organisms, and the effects of those interactions on the demography, behavior and ultimately evolution of the organisms involved.
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Chipmunk
Chipmunks are small, striped rodents of Sciuridae, the squirrel family; specifically, they are ground squirrels (Marmotini).
Chitin
Chitin (C8H13O5N)n is a long-chain polymer of ''N''-acetylglucosamine, an amide derivative of glucose.
Chloride
The term chloride refers to a compound or molecule that contains either a chlorine ion, which is a negatively charged chlorine atom, or a non-charged chlorine atom covalently bonded to the rest of the molecule by a single bond.
Chocolate truffle
A chocolate truffle is a French chocolate confectionery traditionally made with a chocolate ganache centre and coated in cocoa powder, coconut, or chopped nuts.
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Choiromyces
Choiromyces is a genus of truffle-like fungi in the Tuberaceae family. Truffle and Choiromyces are truffles (fungi).
Cicero
Marcus Tullius Cicero (3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, writer and Academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire.
Città di Castello
Città di Castello; "Castle Town") is a city and comune in the province of Perugia, in the northern part of Umbria. It is situated on a slope of the Apennines, on the flood plain along the upper part of the river Tiber. The city is north of Perugia and south of Cesena on the motorway SS 3 bis.
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Clade
In biological phylogenetics, a clade, also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a grouping of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree.
Clay mineral
Clay minerals are hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates (e.g. kaolin, Al2Si2O5(OH)4), sometimes with variable amounts of iron, magnesium, alkali metals, alkaline earths, and other cations found on or near some planetary surfaces.
Climate change
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system.
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Cocktail
A cocktail is a mixed drink, usually alcoholic.
Confectionery
Confectionery is the art of making confections, or sweet foods.
Conidium
A conidium (conidia), sometimes termed an asexual chlamydospore or chlamydoconidium (chlamydoconidia), is an asexual, non-motile spore of a fungus.
Convergent evolution
Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time.
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Copper
Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29.
Departments of France
In the administrative divisions of France, the department (département) is one of the three levels of government under the national level ("territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes.
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Dimethyl sulfide
Dimethyl sulfide (DMS) or methylthiomethane is an organosulfur compound with the formula.
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Douglas fir
The Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii) is an evergreen conifer species in the pine family, Pinaceae.
Eater (website)
Eater is a food website by Vox Media.
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Ectomycorrhiza
An ectomycorrhiza (from Greek ἐκτός ektos, "outside", μύκης mykes, "fungus", and ῥίζα rhiza, "root"; pl. ectomycorrhizas or ectomycorrhizae, abbreviated EcM) is a form of symbiotic relationship that occurs between a fungal symbiont, or mycobiont, and the roots of various plant species.
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Egg
An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the animal hatches.
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Elaphomyces
Elaphomyces (‘deer truffles’) is a genus of hypogeous fungi in the family Elaphomycetaceae.
Enzyme
Enzymes are proteins that act as biological catalysts by accelerating chemical reactions.
Eocene
The Eocene is a geological epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (Ma).
Eocene Okanagan Highlands
The Eocene Okanagan Highlands or Eocene Okanogan Highlands are a series of Early Eocene geological formations which span a transect of British Columbia, Canada, and Washington state, United States.
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Epipactis helleborine
Epipactis helleborine, the broad-leaved helleborine, is a terrestrial species of orchid with a broad distribution.
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Erosion
Erosion is the action of surface processes (such as water flow or wind) that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust and then transports it to another location where it is deposited.
Ether
In organic chemistry, ethers are a class of compounds that contain an ether group—an oxygen atom bonded to two organyl groups (e.g., alkyl or aryl).
Ethylene
Ethylene (IUPAC name: ethene) is a hydrocarbon which has the formula or.
Exposition Universelle (1855)
The italic of 1855, better known in English as the 1855 Paris Exposition, was a world's fair held on the Champs-Élysées in Paris, France, from 15 May to 15 November 1855.
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Fatty acid
In chemistry, particularly in biochemistry, a fatty acid is a carboxylic acid with an aliphatic chain, which is either saturated or unsaturated.
Foie gras
fat liver) is a specialty food product made of the liver of a duck or goose. According to French law, foie gras is defined as the liver of a duck or goose fattened by gavage (force feeding). Foie gras is a popular and well-known delicacy in French cuisine. Its flavour is rich, buttery, and delicate, unlike an ordinary duck or goose liver. Truffle and foie gras are French cuisine.
Fowl
Fowl are birds belonging to one of two biological orders, namely the gamefowl or landfowl (Galliformes) and the waterfowl (Anseriformes).
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
Francis I of France
Francis I (er|; Françoys; 12 September 1494 – 31 March 1547) was King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547.
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French cuisine
French cuisine is the cooking traditions and practices from France.
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Fungiculture
Fungiculture is the cultivation of fungi such as mushrooms. Truffle and Fungiculture are fungi in cultivation.
Fungivore
Fungivory or mycophagy is the process of organisms consuming fungi.
Fungus
A fungus (fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms.
Geopora
Geopora is a genus of truffle-like fungi in the family Pyronemataceae, currently with 13 described species. Truffle and Geopora are truffles (fungi).
Geopora cooperi
Geopora cooperi, commonly known as the pine truffle or the fuzzy truffle, is a species of fungus in the family Pyronemataceae. Truffle and Geopora cooperi are edible fungi.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Gisborne, New Zealand
Gisborne is a city in northeastern New Zealand and the largest settlement in the Gisborne District (or Gisborne Region).
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Glomerales
Glomerales is an order of symbiotic fungi within the phylum Glomeromycota.
Glomeromycota
Glomeromycota (often referred to as glomeromycetes, as they include only one class, Glomeromycetes) are one of eight currently recognized divisions within the kingdom Fungi, with approximately 230 described species.
Glomus (fungus)
Glomus is a genus of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi, and all species form symbiotic relationships (mycorrhizae) with plant roots.
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Hartig net
The Hartig net is the network of inward-growing hyphae, that extends into the plant host root, penetrating between plant cells in the root epidermis and cortex in ectomycorrhizal symbiosis.
Haute cuisine
Haute cuisine or grande cuisine is a style of cooking characterised by meticulous preparation, elaborate presentation, and the use of high quality ingredients. Truffle and Haute cuisine are French cuisine.
Hazel
Hazels are plants of the genus Corylus of deciduous trees and large shrubs native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere.
Hornbeam
Hornbeams are hardwood trees in the plant genus Carpinus in the family Betulaceae.
Humus
In classical soil science, humus is the dark organic matter in soil that is formed by the decomposition of plant and animal matter.
Hydrocarbon
In organic chemistry, a hydrocarbon is an organic compound consisting entirely of hydrogen and carbon.
Hysterangiales
The Hysterangiales are an order of fungi in the class Agaricomycetes, subclass Phallomycetidae.
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Hysterangium
Hysterangium is a genus of truffle-like fungi in the family Hysterangiaceae.
Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution, sometimes divided into the First Industrial Revolution and Second Industrial Revolution, was a period of global transition of the human economy towards more widespread, efficient and stable manufacturing processes that succeeded the Agricultural Revolution.
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Inoculation
Inoculation is the act of implanting a pathogen or other microbe or virus into a person or other organism.
Internal transcribed spacer
Internal transcribed spacer (ITS) is the spacer DNA situated between the small-subunit ribosomal RNA (rRNA) and large-subunit rRNA genes in the chromosome or the corresponding transcribed region in the polycistronic rRNA precursor transcript.
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Ion
An ion is an atom or molecule with a net electrical charge.
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Iron
Iron is a chemical element.
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Italian cuisine
Italian cuisine is a Mediterranean cuisineDavid 1988, Introduction, pp.101–103 consisting of the ingredients, recipes, and cooking techniques developed in Italy since Roman times and later spread around the world together with waves of Italian diaspora.
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Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin ((2 April 1755 – 2 February 1826) was a French lawyer and politician, who, as the author of Physiologie du goût (The Physiology of Taste), became celebrated for his culinary reminiscences and reflections on the craft and science of cookery and the art of eating.
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Juvenal
Decimus Junius Juvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD.
Kalapuya brunnea
Kalapuya brunnea is a species of truffle in the monotypic fungal genus Kalapuya. Truffle and Kalapuya brunnea are edible fungi and truffles (fungi).
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Lalbenque
Lalbenque (L'Albenca) is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France.
Langhe
The Langhe (Langa is from old dialect Mons Langa et Bassa Langa) is a hilly area to the south and east of the river Tanaro in the provinces of Cuneo and Asti in Piedmont, northern Italy.
Lesbos
Lesbos or Lesvos (Lésvos) is a Greek island located in the northeastern Aegean Sea.
Leucangium
Leucangium is a genus of ascomycete fungi.
Leucangium carthusianum
Leucangium carthusianum is a species of ascomycete fungus. Truffle and Leucangium carthusianum are edible fungi.
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Libya
Libya, officially the State of Libya, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
Limogne-en-Quercy
Limogne-en-Quercy (literally Limogne in Quercy; Limonha de Carcin) is a commune in the Lot department in south-western France.
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Linoleic acid
Linoleic acid (LA) is an organic compound with the formula.
List of Tuber (fungus) species
This is a list of the species in the fungal genus Tuber. Truffle and list of Tuber (fungus) species are truffles (fungi).
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Lot (department)
Lot (Òlt) is a department in the Occitanie region of France.
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Loudun
Loudun (Poitevin: Loudin) is a commune in the Vienne department and the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine, western France.
Magnesium
Magnesium is a chemical element; it has symbol Mg and atomic number 12.
Marche
Marche, in English sometimes referred to as the Marches, is one of the twenty regions of Italy.
Martel, Lot
Martel is a commune in the Lot department in southwestern France.
Meat
Meat is animal tissue, often muscle, that is eaten as food.
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Microorganism
A microorganism, or microbe, is an organism of microscopic size, which may exist in its single-celled form or as a colony of cells. The possible existence of unseen microbial life was suspected from ancient times, such as in Jain scriptures from sixth century BC India. The scientific study of microorganisms began with their observation under the microscope in the 1670s by Anton van Leeuwenhoek.
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Mitochondrial DNA
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA and mDNA) is the DNA located in the mitochondria organelles in a eukaryotic cell that converts chemical energy from food into adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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Molise
Molise (Mulise) is a region of Southern Italy.
Montferrat
Montferrat (Monferrato,; Monfrà,,; Mons Ferratus) is a historical region of Piedmont, in northern Italy.
Morchellaceae
The Morchellaceae are a family of ascomycete fungi in the order Pezizales.
Morus (plant)
Morus, a genus of flowering plants in the family Moraceae, consists of 19 species of deciduous trees commonly known as mulberries, growing wild and under cultivation in many temperate world regions.
Mycelium
Mycelium (mycelia) is a root-like structure of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching, thread-like hyphae.
New South Wales
New South Wales (commonly abbreviated as NSW) is a state on the east coast of:Australia.
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Nitrogen
Nitrogen is a chemical element; it has symbol N and atomic number 7.
Northern flying squirrel
The northern flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus) is one of three species of the genus Glaucomys, the only flying squirrels found in North America.
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NPR
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.
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Nuclear DNA
Nuclear DNA (nDNA), or nuclear deoxyribonucleic acid, is the DNA contained within each cell nucleus of a eukaryotic organism.
Nutrient cycle
A nutrient cycle (or ecological recycling) is the movement and exchange of inorganic and organic matter back into the production of matter.
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Oak
An oak is a hardwood tree or shrub in the genus Quercus of the beech family.
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Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest (PNW), sometimes referred to as Cascadia, is a geographic region in Western North America bounded by its coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean to the west and, loosely, by the Rocky Mountains to the east.
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Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
Pasta
Pasta is a type of food typically made from an unleavened dough of wheat flour mixed with water or eggs, and formed into sheets or other shapes, then cooked by boiling or baking. Truffle and Pasta are Italian cuisine.
Pâté
Pâté is a forcemeat. Truffle and Pâté are French cuisine.
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Périgord
Périgord (Peiregòrd or Perigòrd) is a natural region and former province of France, which corresponds roughly to the current Dordogne department, now forming the northern part of the administrative region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Pecan
The pecan (Carya illinoinensis) is a species of hickory native to the southern United States and northern Mexico in the region of the Mississippi River.
Pecan truffle
Tuber lyonii, also known as the American brown truffle or the pecan truffle, is a species of truffle native to North America. Truffle and pecan truffle are edible fungi and truffles (fungi).
Pedanius Dioscorides
Pedanius Dioscorides (Πεδάνιος Διοσκουρίδης,; 40–90 AD), "the father of pharmacognosy", was a Greek physician, pharmacologist, botanist, and author of (On Medical Material), a 5-volume Greek encyclopedia about herbal medicine and related medicinal substances (a pharmacopeia), that was widely read for more than 1,500 years.
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Permineralization
Permineralization is a process of fossilization of bones and tissues in which mineral deposits form internal casts of organisms.
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Peziza
Peziza is a large genus of saprophytic cup fungi that grow on the ground, rotting wood, or dung.
Pezizaceae
The Pezizaceae (commonly referred to as cup fungi) are a family of fungi in the Ascomycota which produce mushrooms that tend to grow in the shape of a "cup". Truffle and Pezizaceae are mushroom types.
Pezizales
The Pezizales are an order of the subphylum Pezizomycotina within the phylum Ascomycota.
Pezizomycetes
Pezizomycetes are a class of fungi within the division Ascomycota.
Pezizomycotina
Pezizomycotina make up most of the Ascomycota fungi and include most lichenized fungi too.
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PH
In chemistry, pH, also referred to as acidity or basicity, historically denotes "potential of hydrogen" (or "power of hydrogen").
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Phenethyl alcohol
Phenethyl alcohol, or 2-phenylethanol, is an organic compound with the chemical formula.
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Pheromone
A pheromone is a secreted or excreted chemical factor that triggers a social response in members of the same species.
Phosphorus
Phosphorus is a chemical element; it has symbol P and atomic number 15.
Phylloxera
Grape phylloxera is an insect pest of grapevines worldwide, originally native to eastern North America.
Phylogenetic tree
A phylogenetic tree, phylogeny or evolutionary tree is a graphical representation which shows the evolutionary history between a set of species or taxa during a specific time.
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Piedmont
Piedmont (Piemonte,; Piemont), located in northwest Italy, is one of the 20 regions of Italy.
Pig
The pig (Sus domesticus), also called swine (swine) or hog, is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal.
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Pine
A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus Pinus of the family Pinaceae.
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Pinus edulis
Pinus edulis, the Colorado pinyon, two-needle piñon, pinyon pine, or simply piñon, is a pine in the pinyon pine group native to the Southwestern United States, used for its edible pine nuts.
Pisolithus arhizus
Pisolithus arhizus, commonly known as the dead man's foot, dyeball, pardebal, or Bohemian truffle, is a widespread earth-ball like fungus, which may in fact be several closely related species.
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Plant litter
Plant litter (also leaf litter, tree litter, soil litter, litterfall or duff) is dead plant material (such as leaves, bark, needles, twigs, and cladodes) that have fallen to the ground.
Plutarch
Plutarch (Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos;; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.
Populus
Populus is a genus of 25–30 species of deciduous flowering plants in the family Salicaceae, native to most of the Northern Hemisphere.
Potassium
Potassium is a chemical element; it has symbol K (from Neo-Latin kalium) and atomic number19.
Princeton Chert
The Princeton Chert is a fossil locality in British Columbia, Canada, which comprises an anatomically preserved flora of Eocene Epoch age, with rich species abundance and diversity.
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Protein subunit
In structural biology, a protein subunit is a polypeptide chain or single protein molecule that assembles (or "coassembles") with others to form a protein complex.
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Pyronemataceae
The Pyronemataceae are a family of fungi in the order Pezizales.
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Quercus garryana
Quercus garryana is an oak tree species of the Pacific Northwest, with a range stretching from southern California to southwestern British Columbia.
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Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period of history and a European cultural movement covering the 15th and 16th centuries.
Rhizopogon
Rhizopogon is a genus of ectomycorrhizal basidiomycetes in the family Rhizopogonaceae.
Robertson, New South Wales
Robertson is a town in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire.
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Romagna
Romagna (Rumâgna) is an Italian historical region that approximately corresponds to the south-eastern portion of present-day Emilia-Romagna in northern Italy.
Rural flight
Rural flight (also known as rural-to-urban migration, rural depopulation, or rural exodus) is the migratory pattern of people from rural areas into urban areas.
Smithsonian (magazine)
Smithsonian is a science and nature magazine (and associated website, SmithsonianMag.com), and is the official journal published by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., although editorially independent from its parent organization.
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Southern Highlands (New South Wales)
The Southern Highlands, also locally referred to as the Highlands, is a geographical region and district in New South Wales, Australia and is 110 km south-west of Sydney.
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Southern United States
The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States.
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Specialty food
A specialty food is a food that is typically considered as a "unique and high-value food item made in small quantities from high-quality ingredients".
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Spore
In biology, a spore is a unit of sexual (in fungi) or asexual reproduction that may be adapted for dispersal and for survival, often for extended periods of time, in unfavourable conditions.
Sporocarp (fungus)
The sporocarp (also known as fruiting body, fruit body or fruitbody) of fungi is a multicellular structure on which spore-producing structures, such as basidia or asci, are borne.
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Squirrel
Squirrels are members of the family Sciuridae, a family that includes small or medium-sized rodents.
Stuffing
Stuffing, filling, or dressing is an edible mixture, often composed of herbs and a starch such as bread, used to fill a cavity in the preparation of another food item.
Suillia tuberiperda
Suillia tuberiperda, the truffle fly, is a European species of Heleomyzidae.
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Suillus
Suillus is a genus of basidiomycete fungi in the family Suillaceae and order Boletales.
Sulfide
Sulfide (also sulphide in British English) is an inorganic anion of sulfur with the chemical formula S2− or a compound containing one or more S2− ions.
Sulfur
Sulfur (also spelled sulphur in British English) is a chemical element; it has symbol S and atomic number 16.
Symbiosis
Symbiosis (from Greek,, "living with, companionship, camaraderie", from,, "together", and, bíōsis, "living") is any type of a close and long-term biological interaction between two biological organisms of different species, termed symbionts, be it mutualistic, commensalistic, or parasitic.
Tasmania
Tasmania (palawa kani: lutruwita) is an island state of Australia.
Terfezia
Terfezia (Berber: Tirfas) is a genus of truffle-like fungi within the Pezizaceae family.
Terfeziaceae
The Terfeziaceae, or desert truffles, is a family of truffles (Tirfas, Kam', Dombelan, kmehat hanegev) endemic to arid and semi-arid areas of the Mediterranean Region, North Africa, and the Middle East, where they live in ectomycorrhizal association with Helianthemum species and other ectomycorrhizal plants (including Cistus, oaks, and pines). Truffle and Terfeziaceae are edible fungi.
The Greeneville Sun
The Greeneville Sun is a daily newspaper in Greeneville, Tennessee.
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Theophrastus
Theophrastus (Θεόφραστος||godly phrased) was a Greek philosopher and the successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school.
Thiophene
Thiophene is a heterocyclic compound with the formula C4H4S.
Third Dynasty of Ur
The Third Dynasty of Ur, also called the Neo-Sumerian Empire, refers to a 22nd to 21st century BC (middle chronology) Sumerian ruling dynasty based in the city of Ur and a short-lived territorial-political state which some historians consider to have been a nascent empire.
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Thracia
Thracia or Thrace (Thrakē) is the ancient name given to the southeastern Balkan region, the land inhabited by the Thracians.
Tuber (fungus)
Tuber is a genus in the fungal family Tuberaceae, with estimated molecular dating to the end of the Jurassic period (156 Mya). Truffle and Tuber (fungus) are truffles (fungi).
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Tuber aestivum
The summer truffle (Tuber aestivum) or burgundy truffle (Tuber uncinatum) is a species of truffle, found in almost all European countries. Truffle and Tuber aestivum are truffles (fungi).
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Tuber borchii
Tuber borchii, known as the whitish truffle or bianchetto truffle, is a small, common species of edible truffle excellent for use in cuisine. Truffle and Tuber borchii are truffles (fungi).
Tuber canaliculatum
Tuber canaliculatum, commonly called Michigan truffle and Appalachian truffle,https://site.truffleboard.com/truffle-species-guide/tuber-canaliculatum-appalachian-truffle/ is a fungus that grows in eastern North America including the Midwest. Truffle and Tuber canaliculatum are truffles (fungi).
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Tuber gibbosum
Tuber gibbosum, commonly known as the Oregon white truffle, is a species of truffle in the genus Tuber. Truffle and Tuber gibbosum are truffles (fungi).
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Tuber macrosporum
Tuber macrosporum, commonly known as the smooth black truffle, is a species of edible truffle in the family Tuberaceae. Truffle and Tuber macrosporum are edible fungi and truffles (fungi).
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Tuber magnatum
Tuber magnatum, the white truffle (Italian: tartufo bianco d'Alba), is a species of truffle in the order Pezizales and family Tuberaceae. Truffle and Tuber magnatum are truffles (fungi).
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Tuber melanosporum
Tuber melanosporum, called the black truffle, Périgord truffle or French black truffle, is a species of truffle native to Southern Europe. Truffle and Tuber melanosporum are truffles (fungi).
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Tuber oregonense
Tuber oregonense, commonly known as the Oregon white truffle, is a species of edible truffle in the genus Tuber. Truffle and Tuber oregonense are truffles (fungi).
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Tuberaceae
The Tuberaceae are a family of mycorrhizal fungi, in the order Pezizales, that evolved during or after the first major radiation of Angiosperms in the Jurassic period (140–180 million years ago, Mya). Truffle and Tuberaceae are truffles (fungi).
Tuscany
Italian: toscano | citizenship_it.
Umbria
Umbria is a region of central Italy.
Vaucluse
Vaucluse (Provençal or Vau-Cluso) is a department in the southeastern French region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
Victoria (state)
Victoria (commonly abbreviated as Vic) is a state in southeastern Australia.
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Volatility (chemistry)
In chemistry, volatility is a material quality which describes how readily a substance vaporizes.
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Vole
Voles are small rodents that are relatives of lemmings and hamsters, but with a stouter body; a longer, hairy tail; a slightly rounder head; smaller eyes and ears; and differently formed molars (high-crowned with angular cusps instead of low-crowned with rounded cusps).
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Western Australia
Western Australia (WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western third of the land area of the Australian continent.
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World War I
World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.
Zinc
Zinc is a chemical element with the symbol Zn and atomic number 30.
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1-Octen-3-ol
1-Octen-3-ol, octenol for short and also known as mushroom alcohol, is a chemical that attracts biting insects such as mosquitoes.
2,4-Dithiapentane
2,4-Dithiapentane is an organosulfur compound, and is the simplest alkyl dithioether.
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See also
Fungi in cultivation
- Agaricus bisporus
- Aspergillus niger
- Auricularia cornea
- Auricularia heimuer
- Cantharellus anzutake
- Cantharellus cibarius
- Chanterelle
- Collybia nuda
- Cyclocybe aegerita
- Dacrymyces spathularia
- Disporotrichum
- Flammulina filiformis
- Fungiculture
- Fusarium venenatum
- Glenbrook Tunnel (1892)
- Grifola frondosa
- Hericium erinaceus
- Hericium novae-zealandiae
- Hypsizygus tessulatus
- Kluyveromyces lactis
- Lentinula novae-zelandiae
- Lingzhi (mushroom)
- Morchella rufobrunnea
- Mushroom Council
- Mushroom spawn
- MycoWorks
- Naematelia aurantialba
- Neurospora crassa
- Penicillium camemberti
- Penicillium roqueforti
- Phallus indusiatus
- Pholiota microspora
- Pleurotus citrinopileatus
- Pleurotus eryngii
- Pleurotus ostreatus
- Pleurotus parsonsiae
- Pleurotus tuber-regium
- Saccharomyces cerevisiae
- Saccharomyces pastorianus
- Sarcomyxa edulis
- Shiitake
- Shimeji
- Sparassis
- Stropharia rugosoannulata
- Tremella fuciformis
- Truffle
- Volvariella volvacea
Fungus common names
- Black yeast
- Blewit
- Blue stain fungi
- Bolete
- Candy cap
- Chanterelle
- Common bunt
- Dermatophyte
- Destroying angel
- Downy mildew
- Dry rot
- Elfin saddle
- False morel
- False truffle
- Fungi imperfecti
- Jelly fungus
- List of common names of lichen genera
- Meshimakobu
- Mold
- Mushroom
- Pathogenic fungus
- Polypore
- Puffball
- Script lichen
- Shaggy parasol
- Shield lichen
- Shimeji
- Smut (fungus)
- Sooty mold
- Soybean rust
- Sunburst lichen
- Truffle
- Verticillium wilt
- Yeast
Mushroom types
- Agaric
- Agaricales
- Boletales
- Bolete
- Cantharellus
- Chanterelle
- Corticioid fungi
- Cyphelloid fungi
- Gasteroid fungi
- Hydnoid fungi
- Jelly fungus
- Lycoperdaceae
- Mushroom
- Mushroom tea
- Pezizaceae
- Phallaceae
- Pleurotoid fungi
- Polypore
- Puffball
- Puffballs
- Secotioid
- Secotioid fungi
- Snowbank fungus
- Truffle
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truffle
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