There is a fungus the size of a golf ball that sells for more per ounce than most people earn in a day. It smells like garlic soaked in earth and aged cheese, and it cannot survive more than about a ...

Many black truffle types can be proliferated by artificial means on spore-impregnated roots in tree plantations. These days they are grown not only in France but also in Italy, the United States, ...

University of Florida biologists studying fungal evolution and ecology have discovered three new truffle species, including one capable of commanding hundreds of dollars per pound within culinary ...

Every morning, for three months of the year, Lola wakes up at 8 and goes hunting. She races past oak trees, running at full speed through a 50-hectare field set in the southern end of the province of ...