Alba white truffle
Tuber magnatum · 白块菌
Rarely Seen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
- Pale yellow to ochre, irregularly lumpy, smooth surface
- Interior pale brown with white marbling when cut
- Grows underground at the roots of oak and poplar in northern Italy
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
- 2–8 cm (overall size)
- Encounter Rate
- Rarely Seen
- Habitat
- Underground on oak, poplar and willow roots in northern Italy
Easily Confused With
Chinese black truffleBlack and lumpy, warty surface, closely resembling the black Perigord truffleFun Fact
Still essentially impossible to cultivate, it can only be tracked down by trained dogs in specific woodlands, and its price has topped nearly every other ingredient for years.