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Originally Posted by Phungus  Apart from telling you how jealous I am I have little help to offer.
Aids to identifying it would be where it was found (the sort of terrain, vegetation etc, NOT the location which if I were you I would keep very close to my chest ).
the earlier suggestion could be right but you would have to be the judge of that... Rogers Mushrooms - Choiromyces meandriformis |
it looks like
Choiromyces though I'd like to see the (very distinctive) spores - but if it
is I wouldn't dream of
eating it
I've only ever once dried some as a herbarium specimen and the house became virtually uninhabitable . . . it smells appalling!
compared to the true white truffle -
Tuber magnatum we are comparing Barcelona with Barnet FC (and that's an insult to Barnet fans); no wonder a lot of Italians consider it toxic (it isn't - it's just uneatable IMO)
so maybe it isn't
Choiromyces - looks very like though
but as to eating it I - literally - wouldn't give it house room as they say up here; sadly, apart from the second rate
Tuber aestivum I don't think we have hypogeous fungi worth eating in this country
but, somebody, tell me I'm wrong
cheers
Chris