Not as well known as its more commercialized and sought after brothers, we are talking about the black truffle tuber macrosporum. The Latin clinical name macrosporum, large spores.
In general, it does not reach large dimensions, everything else, normally the dimensions vary from 2 to 10 centimeters in diameter, sometimes even much smaller, specifically at the beginning of the season and only sometimes, we find truffles that exceed 50 70 grams of weight.
They are quite rounded, irregular, gibbous. This is made up of flattened totally polygonal protuberances. The color varies from grayish to reddish black with hazelnut tones. The peridium is very thin, the mature gleba ranges from grayish white in immature samples to hazelnut gray in older ones. Smooth peridium, hence the name smooth black truffle, which includes uneven polygonal folds of color from greyish to hazel with red tints. Gleba developed by very fine sterilized blood vessels, cream colored and when the gleba matures the colors, which vary from hazel gray to hazel brown.
We can find it in hazelnuts, holm oaks, willows, white poplars in general, hazelnuts and hornbeams. Symbiosis with broadleaf trees.In flat environments in calcareous clay soils where the precious white truffleTuber melanosporum is born.
This truffle ripens from the end of June to the beginning of July, until December, beginning of January. Therefore, a truffle that we find from the threshold of the summer season to the beginning of winter, is a fungus that prefers clayey-calcareous soils, the same conditions where the appreciated magnatum white truffle can be found.
The smell of soft black truffle as well as a very particular pleasant garlicky, not strong, as well as not penetrating like that of the precious white truffle.
When a truffle hunter finds the tuber macrosporum black truffle, he may possibly find himself in a perfect setting for the search for the prized white truffle. In flat environments in calcareous clay soils where .