[mollisia]

Hello Chris,

I'm exactly your opinion - Choiromyces maeandriformis is not a species one can recommend to eat. It is eatable well cooked - but then it tastes ugly. When given to Pasta, as is done with the blach truffles, Choiromyces can be poisonous. There have been cases of poisoning in Switzerland and Germany with Choiromyces eaten raw on Pasta.

Besides that, I don't even think that Tuber aestivum is species worth consuming. I have tried several time. Unripe aestivum are the most ugly lunch I ever had. Tasted like noodles with unripe nuts on them. When ripe and fantastic smelling, they don't have any flavour nevertheless (my experience). In good restaurants you will never get Tuber aestivum - only Tuber melanosporum or even Tuber magnatum.

best regards,
Andreas

P.S.: I can't say which species is shown here without microscopical details