Chinese black truffle
Tuber indicum · 中华块菌
Occasional块菌科🍽 Reported Edible (Wild)
Reference sources describe this as an edible wild fungus. This guide provides no basis whatsoever for foraging or consumption.
The same species can be described differently across regions and stages of maturity, and countless look-alike species cannot be told apart by eye. Never use the information on this page to judge whether a real mushroom is safe to eat.
How to Tell
- Black and lumpy, warty surface, closely resembling the black Perigord truffle
- Interior brown with white veining when cut
- Grows underground in pine-oak forests of Yunnan and Sichuan
ID notes are compiled by AI from public sources, not reviewed by a mycologist, for learning only — never a basis for foraging.
Basics
- Family
- 块菌科
- Hymenium
- Gleba
- Grows On
- Mycorrhizal
- How Big
- 2–6 cm (overall size)
- Encounter Rate
- Occasional
- Habitat
- Underground in oak woods of Yunnan and Sichuan
Easily Confused With
Alba white trufflePale yellow to ochre, irregularly lumpy, smooth surface
Summer truffleBlack and lumpy, surface with coarse, angular wartsFun Fact
Nearly indistinguishable in appearance from the European black truffle, though its aroma is much weaker; in earlier years it was often exported cheaply in bulk and passed off as the European kind.
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